[chef] Re: Trying to start/stop tomcat from my own cookbook

[Morgan Blackthorne < >]

Specifying what error it runs I to will probably help folks help you. It's standard troubleshooting question number one: what happens when you try?

On Sunday, May 12, 2013, Chandan Maheshwari  wrote:

To be more specific, here is what all I have tried:

I have my cookbook: where in my recipe, I am downloading tomcat.tar (this I have placed somewhere in my other machine). After downloading I extract the same tomcat.tar (suppose in location /home/ubuntu/tomcat). Now I am simply trying to start tomcat. I tried the below mentioned ways, but is not able to start/stop.

1) Modified the ~/.bashrc file from my recipe to export JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME,

What I did is:

In a recipe inside bash script simply added the environment variables at the end of ~/.bashrc and then ran source ~/.bashrc [ this works I can verify from ~/.bashrc file)

Now using "execute" resource, ran "/home/ubuntu/tomcat/bin/startup.sh"  BUT IT DO NOT START.

2) Modified the ~/.bashrc file from my recipe to export JAVA_HOME, CATALINA_HOME,
What I did is:

ran a bash script inside recipe to simply add the environment variables at the end of ~/.bashrc and then ran source ~/.bashrc

Inside bash script resource, ran "/home/ubuntu/tomcat/bin/startup.sh"  BUT IT DO NOT START.

3) Wrote a shell script and kept at the same location from where I am downloading tomcat.tar, downloaded the run_tomcat.sh on to the chef-client (using resource remote_file) and then using the "execute" resource running the run_tomcat.sh.

Inside this run_tomcat.sh, I am exporting the environment variables and then running the "/home/ubuntu/tomcat/bin/startup.sh"

BUT IT DO NOT START.

4) Wrote a shell script and kept at the same location from where I am downloading tomcat.tar, downloaded the run_tomcat.sh on to the chef-client (using resource remote_file). Set environment variables using "environment resource" and run script using "execute" resource.
Inside this run_tomcat.sh, running the "/home/ubuntu/tomcat/bin/startup.sh"
BUT IT DO NOT START.

For point 3 and 4 above the strange thing is that other commands inside run_tomcat.sh, like extracting war, deleting some directory from the extracted war executes. BUT TOMCAT DOESN'T START UP.

I tried couple of other things also, but is not able to start or stop the tomcat.

On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 11:00 PM, Chandan Maheshwari < ');" target="_blank"> > wrote:

Hi All,

This may be a stupid or a silly question. But I am finding issues in getting it done.

Basically I have wrote a cookbook, where I am simply downloading a tar file of tomcat with other stuff related to my app from some location.

Then I am using some resources to untar it to define a specific folder structure onto my new instance created using knife ec2 plugin. (to be specific ubuntu)

Now I have one shell script which basically stops the tomcat, extracts my application war in particular location, removes some unwanted files from the extracted war and then starts the tomcat back.

I am executing this script using "execute" and in command passing the full path of the script. The script does everything (extracts my application war in particular location, removes some unwanted files from the extracted war), but it do not stops the tomcat and then starts it back.

The chef-client runs successfully.

Now when I login to the newly created instance, I can't see any tomcat logs. Moreover when I run the shell script manually (which I ran with cookbook also), it does everything and I can hit the URL to access my app.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

I don't want to use the existing tomcat cookbook, as I want to try it from my location(where I have kept the tomcat.tar) also I want to use tomcat7.

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Thanks and Regards,
Chandan

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Regards,
Chandan

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