War file created by Ant is not working with an exception cannot find global ActionForward for name *

[Yolanda Zheng]

Can anyone help??? I got the war file created by Ant, and manually deployed it on a server, but when I tested it, an error message occurs:
However, the war file I created through MyEclipse File-->Export-->war file works with no error message.
Anyone know it is because of the wrong struts config or ant??

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find global ActionForward for name loginPage
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:522)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:398)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)


root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find global ActionForward for name loginPage
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:850)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:779)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:81)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)



my build.xml file is as below:

<project basedir="." name="RRAdmin" > <property name="catalina.home" value="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\webapps\RRAdmin\WEB-INF"/> <!-- UPDATE THIS! --> <property name="war.home" value="C:\rapide\Application Export\2010 release\December" /> <!-- UPDATE THIS! --> <property name="app.name" value="RRAdmin" /> <!-- UPDATE THIS! --> <property name="app.version" value="" /> <!-- UPDATE THIS! --> <property name="app.webRoot" value="WebRoot" /> <property name="app.lib" value="WebRoot\WEB-INF\lib" /> <property name="webinf" value="${app.webRoot}/WEB-INF"/> <property name="metainf" value="${app.webRoot}/META-INF"/> <property name="src.dir" value="src" /> <property name="buildwar.dest" value="${basedir}/AntBuild/RRAdmin" /> <property name="build.dest" value="${basedir}/AntBuild/bin" /> <property name="build.src" value="${basedir}/AntBuild/RRAdmin/src" /> <property name="jar.dest" value="${basedir}/AntBuild/jar" /> <path id="compile.classpath"> <pathelement location="${catalina.home}/classes"/> <fileset dir="${catalina.home}/lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> <fileset dir="${jar.home}"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> <fileset dir="C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\apache-tomcat-6.0.20\lib"> <include name="*.jar"/> </fileset> </path> <target name="compile" depends="prepare-src" > <javac srcdir="${build.src}" destdir="${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/classes" debug="${debug}" optimize="${optimize}"> <classpath refid="compile.classpath" /> </javac> <copy todir="${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/classes"> <fileset dir="${build.src}" > <include name="**/*.properties"/> </fileset> </copy> </target> <target name="package" depends="compile"> <war warfile="${war.home}/${app.name}-${app.version}.war" webxml="${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/web.xml"> <lib dir="${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/lib"/> <classes dir = "${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/classes"/> <fileset dir="${buildwar.dest}"> </fileset> </war> </target>

The structure of my web application:
RRAdmin
|-- src
|--WebRoot
| |--form
| |--jsp
| |--META-INF
| |--WEB-INF
| | |--lib
| | |--struts-config.xml
| | |-- web.xml - deployment descriptor
|--build.xml


The structure of the War file created by ant: :

RRAdmin.war
|-- META-INF
|  |-- manifest.mf
|-- WEB-INF
|  |-- web.xml   - deployment descriptor
|  |--struts-config.xml
|  |-- classes   - class files organized in packages
|  |-- lib       - other libraries
|
|-- <other files, directories etc.>

[Greg Charles]

Hi Yolanda, welcome to JavaRanch!

I think your Ant build is probably fine, and the problem is with your Struts configuration. I'm going to move this thread into our Struts forum, where I'm sure someone will be able to help you with that.

[Yolanda Zheng]

Greg Charles wrote:Hi Yolanda, welcome to JavaRanch!

I think your Ant build is probably fine, and the problem is with your Struts configuration. I'm going to move this thread into our Struts forum, where I'm sure someone will be able to help you with that.

Thank you Greg Charles !!

[Aditya Jha]

Seems like you're sending user to <your-web-site>/loginPage.do or similar, and you don't have any 'global forward' defined with the name 'loginPage' in your Struts config. If you can post your struts config and the URL for which you get this error, the folks would be able to help you.

[Yolanda Zheng]

Aditya Jha wrote:Seems like you're sending user to <your-web-site>/loginPage.do or similar, and you don't have any 'global forward' defined with the name 'loginPage' in your Struts config. If you can post your struts config and the URL for which you get this error, the folks would be able to help you.

I defined the global forward for userLogin.jsp and the URL is: http://localhost:8080/RRAdmin/
The war file I created through MyEclipse File-->Export-->war file works with no error message, but the war file created by Ant got this issue.
I am wondering is it because a .jar file missing when i compile the project.

struts config:

 <global-forwards >
    <forward name="loginPage" path="/form/userLogin.jsp" />
    <forward name="uploadFile" path="/form/uploadFileToProjectTable.jsp" />
    <forward name="projectFile" path="/jsp/projectFile.jsp" />
    <forward name="uploadMoreFiles" path="/form/uploadMoreFiles.jsp" />
    <forward name="goToMenu" path="/jsp/firstWelcomePageAdmin.jsp" />
    <forward name="fileUpload" path="/jsp/fileUpload.jsp" />
    <forward name="fileUploadFailed" path="/jsp/fileUploadFailed.jsp" />
    <forward name="createUser" path="/form/createUser.jsp" />
    <forward name="createAccount" path="/form/createAccount.jsp" />
    <forward name="goBacktoCreateProject" path="/jsp/projectFile.jsp" />
    <forward name="goBacktoShowProjectFieldList" path="/form/showProjectFieldList.jsp" />

    
   

  </global-forwards>

 <action-mappings >
    <action
      attribute="userLoginForm"
      input="/form/userLogin.jsp"
      name="userLoginForm"
      path="/userLogin"
      scope="request"
      type="uk.co.rantandrave.struts.action.loginmanagement.UserLoginAction">
      <set-property property="cancellable" value="true" />
      <forward name="UserLoginSuccessful" path="/form/userLoginAccount.jsp" />
      <forward name="loginFailed" path="/jsp/index.jsp" />
      <forward name="AdminLoginSuccessful" path="/jsp/firstWelcomePageAdmin.jsp" />
    </action>

 </action-mappings >

index.jsp page

<%@ page language="java" pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>

<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-bean" prefix="bean" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-html" prefix="html" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-logic" prefix="logic" %>
<%@ taglib uri="http://struts.apache.org/tags-tiles" prefix="tiles" %>


<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html:html lang="true">
  <head>
    <html:base />
    
    <title>Rant And Rave: Administration Application</title>

	<meta http-equiv="pragma" content="no-cache">
	<meta http-equiv="cache-control" content="no-cache">
	<meta http-equiv="expires" content="0">    
	<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="keyword1,keyword2,keyword3">
	<meta http-equiv="description" content="This is my page">
	<!--
	<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="styles.css">
	-->

  </head>
  
  <body>
    <logic:forward name="loginPage"/>
  </body>
</html:html>

When I used http://10.0.0.201:8080/RRAdmin/jsp/index.jsp, it caused the same error:

type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find global ActionForward for name loginPage
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:522)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:398)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)


root cause

javax.servlet.ServletException: javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find global ActionForward for name loginPage
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:850)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContextImpl.java:779)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:81)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)


root cause

javax.servlet.jsp.JspException: Cannot find global ActionForward for name loginPage
org.apache.struts.taglib.logic.ForwardTag.doEndTag(ForwardTag.java:92)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_logic_005fforward_005f0(index_jsp.java:168)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspx_meth_html_005fhtml_005f0(index_jsp.java:123)
org.apache.jsp.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:72)
org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:70)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:374)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:337)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:803)

[Peter Johnson]

Please use the code tags instead of colors, makes the posts much easier to read. I fixed the post for you.

[Jesus Mireles]

Yolanda,

Did you check to see if your web.xml is being picked up correctly?

<war warfile="${war.home}/${app.name}-${app.version}.war" webxml="${buildwar.dest}/WEB-INF/web.xml">

Shouldnt that file be coming from basedir?

<war warfile="${war.home}/${app.name}-${app.version}.war" webxml="${basedir}/WEB-INF/web.xml">