Problems with Tomcat Ant Tasks

[Gregg Bolinger]

I am trying to see if Tomcat ant tasks are going to work ok for my project. I have a simple WAR file that I am test deploying. Locally, meaning when I set my manager URL to localhost everything works fine. When I try and deploy to a remote machine via it's IP I get an error message. Here is my ant file:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<project name="Test" default="install" basedir=".">
 
<property name="path"     value="/test"/>
 

<property name="url"      value="http://10.2.81.63:8080/manager"/>
  <property name="username" value="gdboling"/>
  <property name="password" value="password"/>
 
<!-- Configure the custom Ant tasks for the Manager application -->
  <taskdef name="deploy"    classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask"/>
  <taskdef name="install"   classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask"/>
  <taskdef name="list"      classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask"/>
  <taskdef name="reload"    classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask"/>
  <taskdef name="remove"    classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask"/>
  <taskdef name="resources" classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask"/>
  <taskdef name="roles"     classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask"/>
  <taskdef name="start"     classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask"/>
  <taskdef name="stop"      classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask"/>
  <taskdef name="undeploy"  classname="org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask"/>
 
<target name="install" description="Install web application">
 
    <deploy url="${url}" username="${username}" password="${password}"
            path="${path}" war="file://${basedir}/build/test.war"/>
  </target>
 
<target name="remove" description="Remove web application">
    <remove url="${url}" username="${username}" password="${password}"
            path="${path}"/>
  </target>
 
</project>

I get the following Error message:

Z:\anttest\build.xml:26: java.net.UnknownHostException: Z

If I change the ${url} to http://localhost:8080/manager and I have tomcat running on the same PC I am running ant from, everything works fine. Any ideas?

[Mike Clark]

I think you might need to drop the // from the file URL in the 'install' target, like so:

file:${basedir}/build/test.war

It seems to be confused by your drive letter (Z).

Mike
[ September 21, 2004: Message edited by: Mike Clark ]

[Gregg Bolinger]

Thanks Mike. I'll give that a shot.

[Gregg Bolinger]

Mike, that worked great. Thanks a lot.

[Mike Clark]

My pleasure. :-)

Mike