specification of server.xml arg. file when starting DS fails if server.xml is specified with absolute path

• Key: DIRSERVER-364
• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Won't Fix
• Priority: Trivial
• Assignee: Alex Karasulu
• Reporter: Nick Faiz

Description

I have to specify a relative path to the server.xml if I want to start the server. It would be nice to be able to specify an absolute path without hitting a FileNotFoundEx.. It seems to be dropping the leading File.separator ...


java.io.FileNotFoundException: home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml (No such file or directory)

For example:

[nickf@little-creatures trunk]$ pwd
/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk
[nickf@little-creatures trunk]$ java -jar main/target/apacheds-main-0.9.1-SNAPSHOT.jar /home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml
server: loading settings from /home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml
[INFO] XmlBeanDefinitionReader - -Loading XML bean definitions from file [/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml]
Exception in thread "main" org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanDefinitionStoreException: IOException parsing XML document from file [/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml]; nested exception is java.io.FileNotFoundException: home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml (No such file or directory)
java.io.FileNotFoundException: home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml (No such file or directory)
        at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)

Whereas, from the same directory, the relative path works!

[nickf@little-creatures trunk]$ java -jar main/target/apacheds-main-0.9.1-SNAPSHOT.jar main/server.xml server: loading settings from main/server.xml
[INFO] XmlBeanDefinitionReader - -Loading XML bean definitions from file [/home/nickf/src/apache/directory/apacheds/trunk/main/server.xml]

Comments

[Nick Faiz]

This issue can be closed. It looks like a prob. with FileSystemXmlApplicationContext . An easy workaround, on UNIX, is to use 2 file separators when specifying the absolute path to the context file, e.g. //tmp/server.xml

Use a URL for the file instead and all should work fine.

[Emmanuel Lecharny]

Closing all issues created in 2005 and before which are marked resolved