Tomcat ant tasks execution error

Question

I have problem with running tomcat ant tasks. I found couple of similar cases, but not one helped:

ant install to deploy Tomcat webapp failing with permission problem

Ant Tomcat 7 Reload FileNotFoundException

Versions:

OS: Windows 7 x64 Professional
Java version: 1.6.0_25
Ant version: 1.8.3
Tomcat version: 7.0.011

My tomcat-users.xml:

    <tomcat-users><role rolename="manager-script"/>
       <user username="script" password="script" roles="manager-script"/>       
       <role rolename="manager-gui"/>
       <user username="manager" password="manager!" roles="manager-gui"/>
    </tomcat-users>

Part of Ant script:

<property name="app.name" value="london"/>
<property name="manager.url" value="http://localhost:8081/manager/text"/>
<property name="manager.user" value="script"/>
<property name="manager.password" value="script"/>
<property name="update.filename" value="update.war"/>   

<taskdef name="tomcatStart" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask"/>
<taskdef name="tomcatStop" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask"/>
<taskdef name="tomcatDeploy" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>          

<target name="main">
<tstamp/>
<tomcatStop
    url="${manager.url}"
    username="${manager.user}"
    password="${manager.password}"
    path="/${app.name}"                    
/>

<tomcatDeploy
    url="${manager.url}"
    username="${manager.user}"
    password="${manager.password}"
    path="/${app.name}"
    war="file:${update.filename}"                                          
/>
</target>

Console output (StopTask):

BUILD FAILED
C:\Users\username\ant\build.xml:34: java.io.FileNotFoundException:
http://localhost:8081/manager/text/stop?path=%2Flondon
at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1434)

at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:228)
at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:149)
at org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask.execute(StopTask.java:73)
at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:811)
at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

Total time: 0 seconds

Console output (DeployTask):

  BUILD FAILED
  C:\Users\username\ant\build.xml:35: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 f
  or URL: http://localhost:8081/manager/text/deploy?path=%2Flondon
  at sun.net.www.protocol.http.HttpURLConnection.getInputStream(HttpURLConnection.java:1436)

  at org.apache.catalina.ant.AbstractCatalinaTask.execute(AbstractCatalinaTask.java:228)
  at org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask.execute(DeployTask.java:211)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.UnknownElement.execute(UnknownElement.java:291)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
  at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
  at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
  at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:597)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.dispatch.DispatchUtils.execute(DispatchUtils.java:106)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Task.perform(Task.java:348)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.execute(Target.java:392)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Target.performTasks(Target.java:413)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeSortedTargets(Project.java:1399)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTarget(Project.java:1368)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.helper.DefaultExecutor.executeTargets(DefaultExecutor.java:41)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Project.executeTargets(Project.java:1251)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.runBuild(Main.java:811)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.Main.startAnt(Main.java:217)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.run(Launcher.java:280)
  at org.apache.tools.ant.launch.Launcher.main(Launcher.java:109)

  Total time: 0 seconds

Strange thing is that I got it worked couple of times, but now it doesn't work again.

Another strange thing is that
StartTask and StopTask generate FileNotFoundException but
DeployTask generates java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403...

Is it possible that error caused by encoded (%2F) slash symbol in path?

Thanks a lot)

this may be a silly question, but are you sure that http://localhost:8081/manager/text points to the manager servlet? Isn't it just http://localhost:8081/manager ? — oers, Mar 14 '12 at 08:06
Yes, for Ant tasks url must be "/manager/text". "/manager/" is used for GUI access. — Tloo, Mar 15 '12 at 12:23

score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 15 '12 at 12:37

1

Looks like all settings are OK:

I deleted Tomcat folder
unpacked new copy
applied settings

and everything works now.

My bad not to check it that way earlier.

edited Mar 15 '12 at 12:37

oers

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answered Mar 15 '12 at 12:31

Tloo

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