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During application server startup, the following error is thrown:
21:47:40,069 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) 2018-03-15 21:47:40,067 [ServerService Thread Pool -- 92] ERROR com.appiancorp.common.config.ConfigObjectRepository - An error occurred while trying to retrieve the list of resources for the config object: [null] 21:47:40,074 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) java.lang.IllegalStateException: basedir C:\appian\ear\suite.ear\web.war does not exist. 21:47:40,078 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.apache.tools.ant.DirectoryScanner.scan(DirectoryScanner.java:871) 21:47:40,083 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.common.config.ConfigObjectRepository.getConfigResourceLocations(ConfigObjectRepository.java:282) 21:47:40,088 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.cache.CacheManager.getDefaultConfig(CacheManager.java:94) 21:47:40,093 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.cache.CacheManager.<clinit>(CacheManager.java:56) 21:47:40,097 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.common.MinimalEvaluationEnvironmentBootstrap.configureEvaluationEnvironment(MinimalEvaluationEnvironmentBootstrap.java:52) 21:47:40,101 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.common.MinimalEvaluationEnvironmentContextListener.doContextInitialized(MinimalEvaluationEnvironmentContextListener.java:11) 21:47:40,111 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.common.web.StartupHaltingServletContextListener$1.run(StartupHaltingServletContextListener.java:74) 21:47:40,112 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.security.changelog.AuditLogLocationService.runWithLocation(AuditLogLocationService.java:38) 21:47:40,117 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at com.appiancorp.common.web.StartupHaltingServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupHaltingServletContextListener.java:71) 21:47:40,120 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.contextListenerStart(StandardContext.java:3339) 21:47:40,125 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3780) 21:47:40,126 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.doStart(WebDeploymentService.java:163) 21:47:40,131 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService.access$000(WebDeploymentService.java:61) 21:47:40,134 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebDeploymentService$1.run(WebDeploymentService.java:96) 21:47:40,139 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511) 21:47:40,141 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266) 21:47:40,143 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1149) 21:47:40,150 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:624) 21:47:40,155 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:748) 21:47:40,158 INFO [stdout] (ServerService Thread Pool -- 92) at org.jboss.threads.JBossThread.run(JBossThread.java:122)
The application server ultimately fails to start.
The value of AE_HOME defined in appian-home.properties located in <APPIAN_HOME>/ear/suite.ear/conf is not configured correctly.
AE_HOME
<APPIAN_HOME>/ear/suite.ear/conf
To fix this issue, perform the following:
<APPIAN_HOME>
This article applies to all versions of Appian.
Last Reviewed: March 2018