I have an installation of jetty hightide (rpm, version 8).
The server runs fine (seems to unpack all the test wars that are bundled with it) but for some reason it will not unpack any of my wars (or any other war for that matter). Restarting the service does not change this so it's not an auto-deploy issue.
Does anyone have any ideas as to what's causing this?
Thanks.
The jetty rpm's and debs are...of questionable use to be honest. I would highly recommend looking at the Fedora rpm's as they are doing a proper job of building rpm's for jetty 8 and jetty 9. We should probably just stop releasing them altogether. If you do get it sorted out then let me know!
Based on what you describe, I would check out the start.ini file, it is probably missing the jetty-webapps.xml and assumes you are doing a context deployment (ie jetty-contexts.xml is likely active).
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I have a problem with a web service that is installed and started with a .msi that is created with the WiX toolset.
The service can be installed and started on all the machines I tested so far (shown as running in the Services Manager) but on some machines it is not reachable (for example via a browser) and not shown in the list of listening ports on that machine (displayed with 'netstat -a').
I am trying to figure out what's going wrong but I am not really familiar with web service development and configuration. It's a third party service, thus I don't know how it works internally.
A good starting point for me would be to find out, what exactly happens when a service is installed and started during the execution of the .msi-file.
Maybe I could try to tackle the problem on a lower level then.
Below is my code in the ServiceInstall-Element:
<ServiceInstall
Id="ServiceID"
Type="ownProcess"
Vital="yes"
Name="ServiceName"
DisplayName="ServiceDisplayName"
Description="Lorem Ipsum"
Start="auto"
Account="LocalSystem"
ErrorControl="normal"
Interactive="no"
Arguments="action=run">
</ServiceInstall>
The argument is important - without it, the service won't start or run.
Maybe someone else encounterd the same or a similar problem and can help me out.
Thanks already in advance - each hint is appreciated.
EDIT I (15.04.18):
As it might be a problem with the specific service, I will add some further information here:
It's a third party software called CryptoLicensing:
http://www.ssware.com/cryptolicensing/cryptolicensing_net.htm
Part of this software is that specific program, that serves as a License Server and does the license registration, for example in a customer's network.
The service can be run as a Windows application or installed and run as a Windows service. In both cases it should be listening on a (pre-)specified port on the installed machine.
Whenever I start the .exe as an application, everything works as intended. The service is reachable (for example with the browser) and can be accessed from other machines in the network.
When the .exe is installed and started as a service, it does not work as intended on every machine. For example if I install and start the service on my laptop, it is shown as running in the Services Manager, but is not reachable on its assigned URL (not even on the localhost) nor is the specific port displayed in the active listening ports, for example with 'netstat -a'.
The service itself starts without any error messages and does not log any errors or exceptions as it seems to be running without any problems.
I contacted the vendor, but sometimes he doesn't reply quickly and he is not very specific in his replies.
Before asking the question I assumed that it was a problem with the Windows user rights and the WiX installer but during the discussion here I had the feeling that it might a problem with the service itself.
I hope this 'new' piece of information helps in isolating and location the problem.
Thanks to everyone who helped so far!
Hopefully not stating the obvious here, but WiX doesn't do much except populate the ServiceInstall table in the MSI file, so this is about why Windows Installer won't start the service. ServiceInstall table:
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/aa371637(v=vs.85).aspx
Also, this isn't really about ServiceInstall - it's probably about the ServiceControl element in your WiX source, but it's not clear whether that's how you're starting it or if you're starting it manually later on. That does make a difference. What is the error message and where are you getting it, and is it a 1920 or 1921 error (in the context of ServiceControl).
The main reason a service will start on one system but not another is missing dependencies. If your service is C++ based (the post doesn't say) then there are probably dependencies on C runtimes, UCRT runtimes, MFC or ATL runtimes and so on.
First: are you sure this service is intended to run as LocalSystem? (MSDN, SO).
Second: did you check the event logs in detail for anything obvious? If the service is good you should find a hint at least. Something to start with. I find that I sometimes miss the actual logs in the event viewer because it is so "crowded". My take on it: empty the log and stop and restart the service.
Something locking / blocking: If the service installs and runs OK I would suspect other factors such as firewalls (hardware & software), security software in general (anti-virus, malware scanners), network configuration issues (proxies, WINS, DNS and all the complexities involved in networking). Is the service trying to reach an UNC path?
Diverse Machines: What are the target machines? Are they virtual, are they physical, are they test machines, are they operative SOE machines in corporate networks? Are they the same OS version and edition?
Further Ideas: It is not quite related, but maybe skim this list of suggestions for debugging from another answer (I am not sure why it was down-voted, I think it is an OK list to inspire debugging ideas): Windows Application Startup Error Exception code: 0xe0434352 (maybe just skim the bolded words for ideas - Recommended).
sc.exe: And finally, perhaps check the sc.exe tool (Service Control) and see if it can provide you with some useful information for debugging.
sc.exe in the context of killing hung services (sample use).
sc.exe from MSDN
Some further links:
Windows Services Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ). Content seems to be up to date - at face value at least. These guys claim to be experts on services. I have no idea who they are.
Essential Tools for Windows Services: SC.EXE
Run Service Control (sc.exe) command on secure port
After almost 20 months we finally (and accidentally) found a solution to the problem! For the few machines, on which the service did not run properly, setting the NoInteractiveServices value in the registry to 0 did the trick. A value of 1 (which is default) means that no service is allowed to run interactively, regardless of whether it has the SERVICE_INTERACTIVE_PROCESS property. More information on Interactive Services.
I am not completely satisfied with the solution, because on all the other machines NoInteractiveServices is set to 1 AND the service runs properly anyway. However, on the machines where the service did not run interactively this solution worked for us. Thus I will accept this as an answer.
If anyone has more information on this issue and can explain why this works, feel free to
add them - I would be very interested!
We are using hawtio to have a fancy and nice web interface for seeing JMX MBeans and Camel Route in our project. However, we have noticed that after weeks running Hawtio stops working and we are getting a Jetty error when trying to access it.
We are using hawtio in standalone mode, version 1.2.0/offline. Also I guess it worth to mention that our Camel routes are pretty heavy and consume many resources (not sure if that impacts hawtio). When trying to access we get this:
HTTP ERROR 404
Problem accessing /ourContextPath/. Reason:
Not Found
Powered by Jetty://
It seems like there is no active resource for our context path and I something went wrong like a thread stopped working or something.
Does anybody have any idea how to solve this or how to find what's causing this? Also, is this a known bug fixed in the latest version (1.2.1)?
Jetty needs a work/temp directory to operate.
Default behavior is to use whatever java.io.tmpdir points to.
However, on many unix installations, this points to /tmp, and that directory is often cleaned out by other processes.
To fix, either specify a java.io.tmpdir to be somewhere other than /tmp
$ java -Djava.io.tmpdir=/var/run/jetty -jar start.jar
or create a ${jetty.base}/work/ directory (if running Jetty 9.1+)
or create a ${jetty.home}/work/ directory (if running versions of Jetty prior to 9.1)
See the answer at Jetty: Starts in C:\Temp for more details on how this work/temp directory operates and is configured.
Does anyone have a good way to set up multiple CFML engines, and versions of them, together in a suitable environment for cross testing a CFML based application.
Ideally, I'd like this to be Ubuntu Server based as I'm using it with VirtualBox (under Windows 7). Plus it'd be helpful if it was possible to switch between, so my laptop can cope with one at a time rather than all running at once. I'm thinking of the following:
Adobe ColdFusion 9
Adobe ColdFusion 10
Railo 3.3.x
Railo 4.x
OpenBD 2.x
I'd also like to get them serving from the same shared directory, so I don't have to have a copy of the code for each engine. Cheers
You mentioned being able to "switch between, so my laptop can cope with one at a time rather than all running at once", I'm guessing that you are thinking that each one will run on a different VM, or that they might require a huge amount of memory. I don't think you need to worry about that. Unless you require that they be on different machines, I think you could do this all on one VM and with one instance of a servlet container (like Tomcat).
From a high-level view, here is how I would do it.
Install Tomcat
Create or download .wars for each of the engines.
Deploy said .wars to that one instance of Tomcat
Set up Tomcat to use each of those servlets from a different host name (server.xml)
Create a code directory outside of Tomcat for your one copy of the code
Set up a Symbolic link in each webapp to link the code folder into the servlet
You should then be able to hit the same source from each engine by visiting the different host names in the browser.
I may be missing something. It has been a long time since I set something like this up. You'll likely need to make a bunch of tweaks (JVM settings, switching to Sun/ORACLE JVM vs. OpenJDK, etc).
I don't think running this many engines will cause you great trouble. In my experiences, for development, I have had 3 instances of CF9 running on Tomcat using only 189mb of RAM. And each additional instance did not increase that number by 1/3. Far less. It would not surprise me if you could run all of those handily with less than 512md of RAM. Possibly even 256mb if you are really hurting on memory.
I hope this helps.
For ColdFusion 10, Railo and OpenBD you would be looking at deploying with standalone installations of Tomcat, Jetty or JBoss.
ColdFusion 9, probably the easiest solution is "Enterprise Multiserver configuration" setup.
With these kinds of installation they are pretty much platform agnostic.
The things to be aware of are the web server, proxy and jndi ports that are used by each installation, but only if you want to run more than one server at a time.
After that it's whether you are bothered about proxying from apache or Nginx to the server instances and the connector you want to use.
No idea if this helps...
Since you've mentioned the VirtualBox, I'll share my personal approach to this task. It includes few fairly simple steps:
Install Ubuntu Server as VirtualBox guest (host is also Ubuntu).
Set up only basic software like JVM and updates. Set up virtual
machine networking as bridged adapter to use my Wi-Fi connection.
Configure my Wi-Fi router DHCP to assign static IP for MAC address of the virtual machine.
Add entry to my (host) system hosts: ip_assigned_to_vm virtual.ubuntu
Set up guest additions and mount my ~/www directory inside the machine to access web applications.
Now, when I need another machine for experiments, or some other configuration of software (I've tested ACF 10 and Railo 4 this way) I do two things:
Clone existing clean machine.
Make sure it is using the same MAC address with bridged interface.
That's it.
It doesn't matter which of the machines I run, they all can be accessed as http://virtual.ubuntu (of course, it requires proper web-server configuration on the guest). Same time they are independent and it is completely safe to make anything I wish and test anything that runs on Ubuntu.
Obvious downsides are that I can run just one machine at a time, plus much more disk space is used. Not a problem to me.
I've tried approach with Tomcat and multiple WARs, but it has couple of issues: I can't use different JVM and Tomcat settings, also if I screw the setup -- all the Tomcat hosts are down.
Hope this helps.
We are trying to use VisualVM to track down some memory leakage in CF8, however, cannot get the tool to work 100%. Basically, everything comes up, except the Memory sampling. Says that the "JVM is not supported".
However, all the other features work (we can do CPU sampling, just not memory). Found this kind of weird that we can do everything else but the memory stuff, so am wondering if maybe we need to specify another JVM argument to allow this?
Some other info:
We are connecting locally via 127.0.0.1 or localhost.
I installed the Visual GC plugin, and it cannot connect either.
VisualVM and JRUN/CF8 are both using the same Java version (1.6.0_31), however, they are not pulled from the same location (maybe this matters). VisualVM uses the installed JDK, whereas JURN/CF8 uses just the binaries that we copied locally to the CF8 installation folder.
Installed another plugin that shows JVM properties, and it says that the JVM is not "attachable". Don't know what that means, but am just wanting to mention it.
Any help with this would be greatly appreciated. If we can just get that memory sampling, I think we can get on top of our performance issues that have plagued us here recently. Thanks in advance!
EDIT:
Also, just checked, and JRUN is being started under "administrator", whereas I am launching VisualVM under a different user. Maybe this is relevant?
Yes, it is relevant that you are running VisualVM under different user. Memory Sampling uses Attach API, which only works if you are running monitored application and VisualVM as the same user. This is also reason that the JVM properties reports that your application is not attachable. If you run VisualVM as "administrator", it will automatically detect your Coldfusion 8 application and the Memory sampler will work.
I am new in using Tomcat Server. In one of the my web application i am using Tomcat 6.0.33 as a Server, it using 100% CPU. I couldn't find it why. Guys could you sort out this problem,
Why this tomcat using 100%CPU?
How to identify the problems of the above?
How to monitor the tomcat in windows?
Please, it would be more helpful for me..
Thanks in advance
Tomcat itself doesn't use 100% CPU, it is not designed that way. Most probably it is some application that is deployed on it. To make 100% sure that it's not Tomcat just download its distribution and start it up - I bet you CPU usage will be closer to 0.
To tell which application inside your Tomcat is misbehaving you will need to use profiling tools.
The best one IMO is Oracle's VisualVM. Start it from your JDK bin directory (it is called jvisualvm.exe), then follow the guide at the link. In particular its Profiling section.