8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3~ppa2 patches not in tomcat8 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.4

Jack Howarth howarth.mailing.lists at gmail.com
Thu Jul 27 13:48:06 UTC 2017


   Is there a reason that the patches present in the test tomcat8
8.0.32-1ubuntu1.3~ppa2 were dropped from tomcat8 8.0.32-1ubuntu1.4? I
ask because the Metaboanalyst server war has been broken under the
ubuntu tomcat7 and tomcat8 for quire some time and this is widely
reported by end users...

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/42707456/how-to-deply-a-war-file-via-the-gui-admin-console-glassfish

when configuring the server as described in....

http://www.metaboanalyst.ca/MetaboAnalyst/faces/docs/Resources.xhtml

Note that the MetaboAnalyst.war is over the size limit for the tomcat
admin deployment feature so that the war has to be manuallty deployed
or the minimum size limit bumped...

https://tecadmin.net/increase-tomcat-upload-file-size-limit/

The ubuntu tomcat packaging produces a server which fails to load the
Metabolyst server page...

 http://localhost:8080/MetaboAnalyst/faces/ModuleView.xhtml

with the error web page...

HTTP Status 404 -
type Status report
message
description The requested resource is not available.
Apache Tomcat/8.0.32 (Ubuntu)

Ubuntu users have been forced to resort to a manual installation of
glassfish4 which always works.
        Jack
ps Note that I packaged the MetaboAnalyst server for use with tomcat
under the fink packaging system on MacOS

http://fink.cvs.sourceforge.net/viewvc/fink/dists/10.9-libcxx/stable/main/finkinfo/sci/metaboanalyst3-r.info?revision=1.3&view=markup

and it has no issues there when used against the Orcale JDK 1.8
release and tomcat. So there is some Debian/Ubuntu patch or packaging
change being made to tomcat which breaks its ability to run the
MetaboAnalyst war.




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