[jetty-users] Migrating Jetty 8 to 9: "No contexts"

[Gary McGath <gmcgath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I first posted this to Stack Overflow and didn't get any answers; hoping 
to get unstuck here.

We have a working Jetty 8 environment (and the person who set it up is 
gone). I'm trying to get our applications running in a test Jetty 9. 
Jetty starts up and writes to start.log, which informs me that 
stderr/stdout are being redirected to
/opt/jetty/logs/2014_04_17.stderrout.log. The latter file reports:

2014-04-17 13:58:37.437:WARN:oejuc.AbstractLifeCycle:main: FAILED 
org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager@7cddffbd: 
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Contexts
java.lang.IllegalStateException: No Contexts
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.deploy.DeploymentManager.doStart(DeploymentManager.java:221)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.AbstractLifeCycle.start(AbstractLifeCycle.java:68)
        at 
org.eclipse.jetty.util.component.ContainerLifeCycle.start(ContainerLifeCycle.java:125)

...

The old installation put context deployment descriptor files in 
/opt/jetty/contexts. The documentation for Jetty 9 appears to say they 
should go in /opt/jetty/webapps. $JETTY_HOME in my environment is 
/opt/jetty. I copied one of the deployment descriptor files to webapps, 
but the error message is the same. There's nothing to tell me where it's 
looking or why it failed.

I put a deliberate XML error into the deployment descriptor file to see 
if that would affect anything, but it didn't, so Jetty may not even be 
reading the file.

I'm running the Jetty launch script in debug mode, and echoing the 
command which launches it to the console (changing -b to -v to get more 
useful output), and here's the full output to the console:

Reading /etc/default/jetty..
START_INI      =  /opt/jetty/start.ini
JETTY_HOME     =  /opt/jetty
JETTY_BASE     =  /opt/jetty
JETTY_CONF     =  /opt/jetty/etc/jetty.conf
JETTY_PID      =  /var/run/jetty.pid
JETTY_START    =  /opt/jetty/start.jar
JETTY_ARGS     =  jetty-logging.xml jetty-started.xml
JAVA_OPTIONS   =  -Djetty.state=/opt/jetty/jetty.state 
-Djetty.logs=/opt/jetty/logs -Djetty.home=/opt/jetty 
-Djetty.base=/opt/jetty -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp
JAVA           =  /usr/bin/java
RUN_CMD        =  /usr/bin/java
Starting Jetty: start-stop-daemon -S -p/var/run/jetty.pid -cjetty 
-d/opt/jetty -v -m -a /usr/bin/java -- 
-Djetty.state=/opt/jetty/jetty.state -Djetty.logs=/opt/jetty/logs 
-Djetty.home=/opt/jetty -Djetty.base=/opt/jetty -Djava.io.tmpdir=/tmp 
-jar /opt/jetty/start.jar jetty-logging.xml jetty-started.xml 
start-log-file=start.log
Starting /usr/bin/java...
Logging to /opt/jetty/start.log
FAILED Thu Apr 17 13:58:41 EDT 2014


Anyone have any ideas on what I'm doing wrong?



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Gary McGath, Principal Software Engineer, Outcome Referrals
gmcgath@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx