tomcat error while deploying WAR file

Question

Please help me with the below exceptions that I obtain while trying to deploy a WAR file on Tomcat server.

07:46:50,076  WARN HostConfig:606 - Exception while expanding web application archive chapal.war
07:47:00,123  INFO StandardHostDeployer:435 - Processing Context configuration file URL file:/home/eqdev/eqgen117/chrad/chapal-puru/tomcat/conf/Catalina/local
host/chapal.xml
07:47:00,158 ERROR Digester:1275 - Begin event threw exception
java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.open(Native Method)
        at java.util.zip.ZipFile.<init>(ZipFile.java:203)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:132)
        at java.util.jar.JarFile.<init>(JarFile.java:70)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.<init>(URLJarFile.java:56)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.getJarFile(URLJarFile.java:41)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarFileFactory.get(JarFileFactory.java:68)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.connect(JarURLConnection.java:102)
        at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.JarURLConnection.getJarFile(JarURLConnection.java:69)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:155)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.SetDocBaseRule.begin(SetDocBaseRule.java:138)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.startElement(Digester.java:1273)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.CatalinaDigester.startElement(CatalinaDigester.java:65)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.startElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.startElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanStartElement(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$ContentDispatcher.scanRootElementHook(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1567)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:488)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:482)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.checkContextLastModified(HostConfig.java:834)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.check(HostConfig.java:1070)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:327)
        at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.backgroundProcess(StandardHost.java:800)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1619)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.processChildren(ContainerBase.java:1628)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$ContainerBackgroundProcessor.run(ContainerBase.java:1608)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
07:47:00,165 ERROR HostConfig:484 - Error deploying configuration descriptor chapal.xml
java.io.IOException: java.util.zip.ZipException: error in opening zip file
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.java:494)
        at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:863)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:482)
        at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:427)

Answer 1

Did you FTP the file from Windows to Unix in ASCII mode instead of Binary?

That could be one cause of the file getting corrupted. you might be able to open with ZIP on windows - but try

jar tvf <filename> on Unix to see if it views content correctly

Answer 2

If you are deploying on Linux then make sure it is readable by the user that the tomcat process is running as. Run "chmod +r" to the war file to add read rights to everyone.

Answer 3

I see this problem when auto-deploy is set to true and I am uploading the war file over a slow connection to a Linux server. For some reason, Tomcat attempts to deploy the WAR before it has finished uploading to the server. Turning off auto-deploy and doing it manually, or ftping the file to a directory on the server other then webapps and then moving it into webapps fixes the problem.

Seems to be a problem with Tomcat not waiting until the file is finished being uploaded before trying to expand it.

Answer 4

I too had the same issue. Changing the permission of the war file solved it

Answer 5

It looks like your war-file may be corrupted or have the wrong permissions. .war files are zipfiles - can you open one with zip/winzip/7zip or the like and confirm that it is complete and readable? What are the file permissions?

Answer 6

I had the same problem and I just unzipped and zipped it again manually. That worked for me.