Web Browser does not launch automatically

I have googled for answers to my question, also searched thru jetbrains forums - but could not find useful information to solve the problem. If someone could give me a few pointers to investigate, that would be great.

Thanks.

Your settings look good to me. Is there anything in the idea log files (located at ~/.IntelliJIdea90/system/log) that might provide a clue? Is there a possible permissions issue?

p.s. you are correct that IDEA should automatically launch the browser given your settings. I can say that it works on Windows. Never tried it on Linux.

I have the exact same problem on Windows XP with IDEA 9.03.  Not sure why its not working but would love to know.

Mark

  I never knew about the log file .IntelliJIdea90/system/log/idea.log. Thanks a lot for pointing it out.

  One error that I see is:

2010-09-29 14:16:47,898 [5333478]   INFO - tbrains.idea.tomcat.TomcatUtil - Cannot load /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml. /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml (No such file or directory)
com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: Cannot load /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml. /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml (No such file or directory)

  There is no META-INF folder inside the "exploded" folder. Am I missing out something? Is this the cause of the problem?

Thanks.

This exception is harmless. Did you see 'Connected to server' message in 'output' panel of 'Run' toolwindow?

Mark

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   I never knew about the log file .IntelliJIdea90/system/log/idea.log. Thanks a lot for pointing it out.

>

   One error that I see is:

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2010-09-29 14:16:47,898    INFO - tbrains.idea.tomcat.TomcatUtil - Cannot load /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml. /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml (No such file or directory)
com.intellij.execution.ExecutionException: Cannot load /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml. /home/shaahul/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/META-INF/context.xml (No such file or directory)

>

   There is no META-INF folder inside the "exploded" folder. Am I missing out something? Is this the cause of the problem?

>

Thanks.

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hi Nikolay

  I could not find the "Connected to Server" message in the "output" of "Run" window.

  These are the messages I get.

/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh run
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 706 ms
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.20
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.core.CollectionFactory).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.template.JdbcTemplate comment
INFO: Lock Database
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.lock.LockHandler acquireLock
INFO: Successfully acquired change log lock
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.parser.xml.XMLChangeLogHandler startElement
WARNING: /WEB-INF/liquibase/liquibase.xml is using schema version 1.6 rather than version 1.9
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.AbstractDatabase getRanChangeSetList
INFO: Reading from `DATABASECHANGELOG`
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.template.JdbcTemplate comment
INFO: Release Database Lock
1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.lock.LockHandler releaseLock
INFO: Successfully released change log lock
Loaded propertyLocator.properties Successfully..
Using properties from usePath = WEB-INF/properties/Laptop
PREFIX = /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/properties/Laptop
Using properties file: /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/properties/Laptop/logger-config.properties
Watch is set to: null
hibernate File = /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml
InitServlet intialized
Loaded environment.properties Successfully..
1 Oct, 2010 4:03:02 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
1 Oct, 2010 4:03:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 21642 ms

  The "Deployment" window under "Run" window shows the name of the artifact to deploy at the server startup "mywebapp:Web exploded" with a green "ok" symbol - which makes me assume that the app has been successfully deployed. Following which I need to manually open the browser, go to the "Tomcat Manager" application and then start mywebapp.

I think the problem will be fixed in next EAP build.

hi Nikolay

>

   I could not find the "Connected to Server" message in the "output" of "Run" window.

>

   These are the messages I get.

>

/usr/share/tomcat6/bin/catalina.sh run
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
> INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
> INFO: Initialization processed in 706 ms
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
> INFO: Starting service Catalina
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
> INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.20
> log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.springframework.core.CollectionFactory).
> log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.template.JdbcTemplate comment
> INFO: Lock Database
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.lock.LockHandler acquireLock
> INFO: Successfully acquired change log lock
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.parser.xml.XMLChangeLogHandler startElement
> WARNING: /WEB-INF/liquibase/liquibase.xml is using schema version 1.6 rather than version 1.9
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.AbstractDatabase getRanChangeSetList
> INFO: Reading from `DATABASECHANGELOG`
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.database.template.JdbcTemplate comment
> INFO: Release Database Lock
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:02:48 PM liquibase.lock.LockHandler releaseLock
> INFO: Successfully released change log lock
> Loaded propertyLocator.properties Successfully..
> Using properties from usePath = WEB-INF/properties/Laptop
> PREFIX = /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/properties/Laptop
> Using properties file: /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/properties/Laptop/logger-config.properties
> Watch is set to: null
> hibernate File = /home/user9/mywebapp/mywebapp/exploded/WEB-INF/hibernate.cfg.xml
> InitServlet intialized
> Loaded environment.properties Successfully..
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:03:02 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
> INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
> 1 Oct, 2010 4:03:02 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
> INFO: Server startup in 21642 ms

>

   The "Deployment" window under "Run" window shows the name of the artifact to deploy at the server startup "mywebapp:Web exploded" with a green "ok" symbol - which makes me assume that the app has been successfully deployed. Following which I need to manually open the browser, go to the "Tomcat Manager" application and then start mywebapp.

>

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"Develop with pleasure!"

Same problem here, using IDEA 9.0.4 on windows XP.

The problem started a few weeks ago, when I reinstalled my laptop.
Before that, everything worked fine, using the same IDEA version. I did switch to a more recent Tomcat though (6.0.32). Might this be the cause of the problem?

Just confirmed that it is the tomcat version.
Using Tomcat 6.0.20 (which I used before) my webapp is automatically loaded in the browser.
However, this does not happen when using Tomcat 6.0.32!

The problem is with context definitions. According to Tomcat docs Context elements may be explicitly defined:

In the

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml

file:   the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps.


In the   

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/context.xml.default

  file: the Context element information will be loaded by all webapps of that   host.


In individual files (with a ".xml" extension) in the   

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/

directory.   The name of the file (less the .xml extension) will be used as the   context path. Multi-level context paths may be defined using #, e.g.   

foo#bar.xml

for a context path of

/foo/bar

. The   default web application may be defined by using a file called   

ROOT.xml

.


Only if a context file does not exist for the application in the   

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/

, in an individual   file at

/META-INF/context.xml

inside the application files. If   the web application is packaged as a WAR then   

/META-INF/context.xml

will be copied to   

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[enginename]/[hostname]/

and renamed to   match the application's context path. Once this file exists, it will not be   replaced if a new WAR with a newer

/META-INF/context.xml

is   placed in the host's appBase.

The log message means idea falls to the step 4, but normally context xml should be resolved at step 3 (

$CATALINA_BASE/conf/Catalina/localhost/yourcontextname.xml)

yourcontextname.xml in that folder for unknown reasons. Also, i see idea deploys all the bundled applications, although corresponding checkbox is unset.