Just to clarify, how can i tell jboss/coldfusion that the root directory of my app is not actually the deployment directory but a few directories below that

at the moment when i run a coldfusion function expandPath("/") it (rightly) returns the deploy directory, is there some way to change jboss' cf config to change this?

Hey Guys,

Giving this another shot and running into the same issue, i need to know how to define the webroot of an application in JBoss, not sure if this is possible but its a requirement for the framework im using.

basically i have the following structure


/root.war
/root.war/projects/app/www <-- web application root
/root.war/plugins <!-- framework files
/root.war/core <!-- framework files

So i have the whole /root.war directory correctly parsing cfml (my framework files and application files), now i need a way to tell jboss to serve all requests from my application root, ie:

/root.war/projects/www/site/www

At the moment jboss deploys the site like this

009-11-09 11:15:52,546 INFO [org.jboss.web.tomcat.service.deployers.TomcatDeployment] (main) deploy, ctxPath=/
2009-11-09 11:15:53,062 INFO [STDOUT] (main) ===================================================================
WEB CONTEXT
-------------------------------------------------------------------
- config:C:\Domains\railo-deploy\root.war\WEB-INF\railo
- webroot:C:\Domains\railo-deploy\root.war\

i would like to change the webroot location above to

- webroot:C:\Domains\railo-deploy\root.war\projects\site\www\

can this be done? note i still need jboss to parse files under root.war/plugins and root.war/core since the web app needs these files.

Any idea how i can get this done, i have tried added context-path, appBase, docBase and a number of other things to
/root.war/WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

also tried creating
/root.war/WEB-INF/context.xml

and added context, appBase and docBase to
$jboss\server\$instance\deploy\jbossweb.sar\server.xml

most of which caused errors, can anyone suggest the right way to do this? or even if its possible, as you can see im completely lost as to how this should be defined.

Any help/advice appreciated, thanks.

"PeterJ" wrote:
That is not a problem - you can have several directories nested within the deploy directory, and apps within those directories. As an example, look at server/xxx/deploy/management. Note that that console SAR application is located within that directory. The only real requirement is that application directory contain a suffix, such as WAR, so that JBossAS will know what type of app it is.

For example, this directory path would be acceptable for deploying a web app:

server/xxx/deploy/project/site/root.war

FYI

the requests are handled in the following order

- IIS
- apache jakarta connector
- JBoss 5.1
- Railo 3.1

the coldfusion framework im using is called farcry, which has this embedded project architecture which doesnt seem to go down well with jboss =\

just wondering if i will experience the same issue if i work directly with tomcat and skip jboss altogether, maybe thats an option?

jboss will look at the first war folder thats defined in the scanning directory and deploy that, it will ignore nested wars.

I've managed to get it working but its quite messy, all i need to clean it up is a way to map a directory within the deployed context.

so i now have

/core
/core/webtop
/plugins
/projects/appName/www.war

but i need a way to setup an alias of "webtop" under www.war

to get around it ive just copied the "webtop" resources to the deploy directory, works fine, but that completely screws up the frameworks structure, not the best for subversion and working with the app on multiple environments.

Any ideas PeterJ? i have tried added a context tag for my application host tag under deploy/jbossweb.sar/server.xml but regardless of the format and attributes i define the instance just fails to come up

the error i keep getting, regardless of the attributes i define is

DEPLOYMENTS IN ERROR:
Deployment "WebServer" is in error due to the following reason(s): org.jboss.xb.binding.JBossXBRuntimeException: Context cannot appear in this position. Expected content of Host is unordered_sequence: Listener* Valve* Alias* Realm? attributes?