Bamboo can't find WAR file

[Christian]

I have bitbucket on a GCP vm instance and bamboo on another. I've linked the two applications together and added the appropriate bitbucket repo to bamboo. When trying to deploy a tomcat server using the war file from the bitbucket repo, I get an error indicating the WAR file couldn't be found. Here's the message:

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Build test_project - test_name - Default Job #6 (TPR-TNM-JOB1-6) started building on agent Default Agent

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Build working directory is /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Executing build test_project - test_name - Default Job #6 (TPR-TNM-JOB1-6)

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running pre-build action: VCS Version Collector

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Starting task 'Test Description' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.bamboo-tomcat-plugin:deployAppTask'

error    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Could not find war file at /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1/target/gulc.war. The application could not be deployed.

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Finished task 'Test Description' with result: Error

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running post build plugin 'Artifact Copier'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running post build plugin 'npm Cache Cleanup'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running post build plugin 'Clover Results Collector'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running post build plugin 'Docker Container Cleanup'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Finalising the build...

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Stopping timer.

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Build TPR-TNM-JOB1-6 completed.

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running on server: post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running on server: post build plugin 'Build Hanging Detection Configuration'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running on server: post build plugin 'Clover Delta Calculator'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Running on server: post build plugin 'Maven Dependencies Postprocessor'

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    All post build plugins have finished

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Generating build results summary...

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Saving build results to disk...

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Logging substituted variables...

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Indexing build results...

simple    20-Mar-2018 00:57:26    Finished building TPR-TNM-JOB1-6.

It looks like bamboo is trying to search for the WAR file in its own directory vs the bitbucket repo. Any suggestions?

[Jeremy Owen · Accepted solution]

Hey Christian,

I think you'll just need to pop target/gulc.war into the Tomcat Task WAR File field as it requires the directory path and filename, relative to the working directory.

Hope this helps :)

[Christian]

Thanks for your help, Bamboo was able to find the war file. Appreciate your time.

[Jeremy Owen]

Hey Christian,

Bamboo's Tomcat deployment task requires the WAR file to be in the working directory of the build. You'll need to add a Source-code checkout task (before the Tomcat deployment task) to check it out from the repository into the working directory first.

Hope this helps. :)

[Christian]

Thanks Jeremy, I'll try this out and get back to you.

[Christian]

Greetings, I'm running into the same issue. I've added the Source Code Checkout task and ensured the correct repo was configured. I also left the Checkout Directory blank. I used this as reference.

In the Deploy Tomcat task, I specified the /target/ directory in the WAR file field. But I get the follow message:

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Build test_project - test_name - Default Job #11 (TPR-TNM-JOB1-11) started building on agent Default Agent

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Build working directory is /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Executing build test_project - test_name - Default Job #11 (TPR-TNM-JOB1-11)

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Starting task 'check_out_dev_master_test' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.vcs:task.vcs.checkout'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Checking out into /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:21 Updating source code to revision: 4446ce40168943b701870b360179925fccbdf1a6

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Git: Updating references

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Git: 

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Fetching '+refs/heads/classroom_01_dev_master:refs/heads/classroom_01_dev_master' from 'ssh://git@[IP]:7999/gul/classroom_base.git'.

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Checking out revision 4446ce40168943b701870b360179925fccbdf1a6.

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Updated source code to revision: 4446ce40168943b701870b360179925fccbdf1a6

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Finished task 'check_out_dev_master_test' with result: Success

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running pre-build action: VCS Version Collector

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Starting task 'Test Description' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.bamboo-tomcat-plugin:deployAppTask'

error 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Could not find war file at /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1/target. The application could not be deployed.

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Finished task 'Test Description' with result: Error

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running post build plugin 'Artifact Copier'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running post build plugin 'npm Cache Cleanup'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running post build plugin 'Clover Results Collector'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running post build plugin 'Docker Container Cleanup'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Finalising the build...

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Stopping timer.

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Build TPR-TNM-JOB1-11 completed.

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running on server: post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running on server: post build plugin 'Build Hanging Detection Configuration'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running on server: post build plugin 'Clover Delta Calculator'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Running on server: post build plugin 'Maven Dependencies Postprocessor'

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 All post build plugins have finished

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Generating build results summary...

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Saving build results to disk...

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Logging substituted variables...

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Indexing build results...

simple 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Finished building TPR-TNM-JOB1-11.

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You'll see that the git checkout was successful but, strangely, the war file still can't be found in the correct directory :

error 21-Apr-2018 11:16:22 Could not find war file at /var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1/target. The application could not be deployed.

However, I ssh'd into my vm and found the war file in the target folder:

[root@bamboo-03 target]# pwd

/var/atlassian/application/bamboo/xml-data/build-dir/TPR-TNM-JOB1/target

[root@bamboo-03 target]# ls

gulc gulc.war m2e-wtp maven-archiver

What else could be wrong? Thank you for your help.

[Christian]

I thought it may have been a permissions issue per this link. I added the bamboo user to tomcast-users.xml but I get the same error.