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Liferay – Deployment will start in a few seconds

published October 7, 2010

And then nothing happens. I Run into this situation today, where first deployment of portlet works just fine but then following ones do nothing. Tomcat catalina.out just says:

11:07:47,534 INFO [PortletAutoDeployListener:87] Portlets for [..war..] copied successfully. Deployment will start in a few seconds.

No files copied, no nothing. This is how I got it working (try step 5. first as it seems to solve problem):

1. Turn on Liferay debugging from admin console
Now log keeps saying:
11:58:09,542 DEBUG [BaseExplodedTomcatListener:138] [..war..] does not have a matching extension

2. Turn on Tomcat logging by setting “org.apache.catalina.level = ALL” to Tomcat /conf/logging.properties
There is loads of stuff, did not find anything interesting.

3. See what files are modified after deploy
-bash-3.2$ find . -mmin -2
./liferay/deploy
./liferay/tomcat-6.0.18/logs/catalina.out
./liferay/tomcat-6.0.18/logs/catalina.2010-10-07.log

Now that is weird. “Deployed” war just vanishes after copying.

4. Start removing stuff from war
Removed web.xml, liferay-portlet.xml, portlet.xml etc. from war file. Nothing helped.

5. Made a complete copy of a war and deployed that
Now this seems to work! After this I deployed old version. Also that worked now fine!?
Really weird, but that copy seemed to somehow solve the problem.

Environment:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.5 (Tikanga)
Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_13-b03)
Liferay 5.2.2 CE
Tomcat 6.0.18

Is someone knows why it works this way, please comment…

Samuli @ 13:00 (No Comments)

tags: Liferay