Ant: Problem with Undeploy Task with Tomcat 6

[James Dekker]

Hello there,

I am using Tomcat 6, Apache Ant 1.7.1 and JDK 1.6 on OS X Snow Leopard...

Created the following build script and supporting property files:

(1) build.xml

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<project name="${project.name}" default="deploy" basedir=".">
   
    <property file="build.properties"/>
	<property file="admin.properties"/>
	
	<taskdef file="tomcatTasks.properties">
        <classpath>
            <pathelement path="${tomcat.home}/lib/catalina-ant.jar"/>
        </classpath>
	</taskdef>

	<target name="prepare">
	    <mkdir dir="${webapp.build.dir}" />
	    <mkdir dir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF" />
	    <mkdir dir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/lib" />
	    <mkdir dir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/classes" />
	</target>
	
    <target name="static" depends="prepare">
	    <!-- Copy web files -->
	    <copy todir="${webapp.build.dir}/">
	        <fileset dir="web" />
	    </copy>
	    <!-- Copy webapp configuration files -->
	    <copy todir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/">
	        <fileset dir="etc" />
	    </copy>
    	<!-- Copy properties files -->
    	<copy todir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/classes">
    		<fileset dir="props" />
    	</copy>
	    <!-- Copy jar files -->
	    <copy todir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/lib/">
	       <fileset dir="lib" />
	    </copy>
	</target>
    
	<target name="compile" depends="static">
	    <javac   srcdir="src"
	             destdir="${webapp.build.dir}/WEB-INF/classes/"
	             deprecation="off" debug="on" optimize="off">
	      <classpath>
	        <!-- Include all JAR files in my local library -->
	        <fileset dir="lib">
	        	<include name="*.jar"/>
	        </fileset>
	        <!-- Include all common libraries in Tomcat -->
	        <fileset dir="${tomcat.home}/lib">
	        	<include name="*.jar"/>
	        </fileset>
	      </classpath>
	    </javac>
    </target>

	<target name="deploy" depends="compile">
	    <jar jarfile="${build.dir}/${webapp.name}.war" basedir="${webapp.build.dir}" />
	    <!-- Copy the newly built WAR file into the deployment directory -->
    	<copy file="${build.dir}/${webapp.name}.war" todir="${tomcat.deployment.dir}" />
	</target>
    
    <target name="clean" 
            description="Clears all generated files, including build directories, distributables, and documentation.">
        <delete dir="${build.dir}"/>
    </target>
	
	<target name="package">
		<jar jarfile="${build.dir}/${webapp.name}.war" basedir="${webapp.build.dir}" />
	</target>
	
	<target name="install" description="Install application in Tomcat" depends="package">
	    <deploy url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
	            username="${tomcat.username}"
	            password="${tomcat.password}"
	            path="/${webapp.name}"
	            war="file:${tomcat.deployment.dir}/${webapp.name}.war"/>
	</target>

    <target name="undeploy" depends="clean" description="Remove application in Tomcat">
        <undeploy url="${tomcat.manager.url}"
            	  username="${tomcat.username}"
                  password="${tomcat.password}"
                  path="/${webapp.name}"/>
    </target>
</project>

(2) admin.properties

tomcat.server=localhost
tomcat.manager.url=http://${tomcat.server}:8080/manager
tomcat.username=admin
tomcat.password=admin

(3) build.properties:

project.name=myproject
build.dir=./build

# Web app properties for the project
webapp.name=myproject
webapp.build.dir=${build.dir}/${webapp.name}
webapp.virtual.host=localhost
webapp.meta.dir=${webapp.build.dir}/META-INF

# Tomcat properties
tomcat.home=/Users/jdekker/DevTools/Java/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.20
tomcat.deployment.dir=${tomcat.home}/webapps

(4) tomcatTasks.properties

# Tomcat Task Properties
deploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.DeployTask
install=org.apache.catalina.ant.InstallTask
list=org.apache.catalina.ant.ListTask
reload=org.apache.catalina.ant.ReloadTask
remove=org.apache.catalina.ant.RemoveTask
resources=org.apache.catalina.ant.ResourcesTask
roles=org.apache.catalina.ant.RolesTask
start=org.apache.catalina.ant.StartTask
stop=org.apache.catalina.ant.StopTask
undeploy=org.apache.catalina.ant.UndeployTask

(5) tomcat-users.xml :

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<tomcat-users>
  <role rolename="tomcat"/>
  <role rolename="role1"/>
  <role rolename="admin"/>
  <user username="tomcat" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat"/>
  <user username="both" password="tomcat" roles="tomcat,role1"/>
  <user username="role1" password="tomcat" roles="role1"/>
  <user username="admin" password="admin"/>
</tomcat-users>

When I run the deploy target, everything works (it places myproject.war) underneath $CATALINA_HOME/webapps...

However, when I run the undeploy target, I get the following error message:

Problem:

Buildfile: /Users/jdekker/work/myproject/build.xml
Trying to override old definition of datatype resources
clean:
   [delete] Deleting directory /Users/jdekker/work/myproject/build
undeploy:

BUILD FAILED
/Users/jdekker/work/myproject/build.xml:83: java.io.IOException: Server returned HTTP response code: 403 for URL: http://localhost:8080/manager/undeploy?path=/myproject

Total time: 170 milliseconds

Would really appreciate it if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong!

Happy programming,

James

[Misha Ver]

tomcat-users.xml is missing the user with the manager role

[James Dekker]

Misha,

Thank you so much for the response!

<user username="admin" password="admin" roles="admin, manager"/>

Yes, it worked! Thank you so much! BTW, in order, to get it to work, I had to have Tomcat running!

-James