[jboss-as7-dev] Help need with JBoss 7 migration

[Brian Stansberry]

This looks like https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3414 and 
https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3357

On 5/29/12 9:55 PM, Shashank Bellary wrote:
>
> Thank you for such a quick response
>
> Note that I've symlinks at multiple levels
>
> The WAR under deployments is a symlink (level-1) to an exploded content elsewhere, and under the exploded content else I've bunch of symlinks (level-2) pointing to some other content at a third location. It's able to follow the level-1 symlink which is to the exploded WAR but fails to look up a file under third location by following level-2 symlink. Is your test scenario is accounting for this use case as well?
>
> I'll start a thread on user forums as well. Appreciate your help on this
>
> Thanks
> Shashank
>
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> From: jboss-as7-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org [mailto:jboss-as7-dev-bounces at lists.jboss.org] On Behalf Of Brian Stansberry
> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2012 9:01 PM
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> Subject: Re: [jboss-as7-dev] Help need with JBoss 7 migration
>
> I just tested creating a symlink in deployments to exploded content elsewhere, and it worked fine.
>
> Can you start a thread in the user forums with more details on the deployment failure?
>
> On 5/29/12 4:58 PM, Shashank Bellary wrote:
>> Hi Guys,
>>
>> I'm trying to migrate to JBoss 7.1.1 from 4.0.5.
>>
>> In our application we use lot of symlinks to support CMS content which
>> is managed externally and to support some file bases caching. Here is
>> how the deployment looks like
>>
>> JBoss 4.0.5:
>>
>> -----------------
>>
>> Under "/deploy/jboss-4.0.5.GA/server/czen/deploy" we've our exploded
>> WAR directory release.war
>>
>> Here release.war is a symlink to '/deploy/webapp/current' which in
>> turn is a symlink to an actual release folder like
>> '/deploy/webapp/release-version-xyz'
>>
>> 'release-version-xyz' folder has the following structure
>>
>> -WEB-INF
>>
>> -JSP
>>
>> -Content
>>
>> -Cache
>>
>> -JS
>>
>> -CSS
>>
>> Here both Content and Cache folders are symlinks to
>>
>> /deploy/webapp/
>>
>> -CMSContent
>>
>> -Cache
>>
>> respectively.
>>
>> This deployment structure worked perfectly fine on JBoss 4.0.5 and now
>> I'm moving this app to JBoss 7.1.1 and here is the deployment
>> structure
>>
>> Under "/deploy/jboss-as-7.1.1.Final/czen/deployments" I've moved our
>> release.war as a symlink. Rest of the structure remains the same as
>> mentioned above. With this setup JBoss 7 start up/ application
>> initialization fails because it's not able to follow the symlink and
>> find a file that my application is trying to read at startup. I looked
>> over the documentation and forums to figure out a solution for this
>> but no luck.
>>
>> Could you guys please help in troubleshooting this issue? Is there
>> some configuration parameter that needs to be set or are there other ways.
>> Please let me know, I've a deadline fast approaching
>>
>> Thanks&  Regards
>>
>> Shashank
>>
>>
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