# Start tomcat **URL:** \ **Category:** Ansible Developer\ **Created:** [March 14, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855 "2016-03-14T01:15:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 1:15am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/1 "2016-03-14T01:15:45Z")
Hi folks, Is anybody has an idea how can i resolve that error message? TASK [tomcat : copy mmc.war to webapps] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [webserver1] TASK [tomcat : Set Java\_opts for tomcat] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [webserver1] TASK [tomcat : install Tomcat init script] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* ok: [webserver1] TASK [tomcat : Start Tomcat] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* changed: [webserver1] TASK [tomcat : wait for tomcat to start] \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* fatal: [webserver1]: FAILED! =\> {“changed”: false, “elapsed”: 30, “failed”: true, “msg”: “Timeout when waiting for 127.0.0.1:8080”} NO MORE HOSTS LEFT \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* to retry, use: --limit @mmc.retry PLAY RECAP \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* webserver1 : ok=13 changed=1 unreachable=0 failed=1 any suggestion ?? ---
**Author:** ![Rene\_Moser](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7bcc69/32.png) [@Rene\_Moser](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Rene_Moser)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 6:47am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/2 "2016-03-14T06:47:58Z")
Hi > TASK [tomcat : wait for tomcat to start] > \*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\*\* > fatal: [webserver1]: FAILED! =\> {"changed": false, "elapsed": 30, > "failed": true, "msg": "Timeout when waiting for 127.0.0.1:8080"} You didn't share the playbook so I can just guess this task is done with wait\_for, right? It seems you defined the timeout to 30 seconds, increasing this timeout to a more appropriate value could solve this issue. If you remove the timeout argument, the default would be 300 sec. Find more docs and examples on [http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/wait\_for\_module.html](http://docs.ansible.com/ansible/wait_for_module.html) - wait\_for:     port: 8080     timeout: 60 Regards René ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 11:50am UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/3 "2016-03-14T11:50:38Z")
Since this is tomcat I would recommend inserting a pause before your use wait\_for as tomcat seems to come up, grab the port, do a lot of stuff and then only start listening on the port once it has deployed any wars inside it. This messes up wait\_for as it can’t make sense out of the locked port. I set a different pause interval according the environment I am running in so the pause period doesn’t have to be unnecessarily long. I usually use a value which is a few seconds long than it takes for the message ‘Server startup in …’ to appear in the tomcat stderr logging. Hope this helps, Jon ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:16pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/4 "2016-03-14T14:16:38Z")
name: Install Java 1.7 apt: name=openjdk-7-jdk state=present update\_cache=true - name: add group Tomcat group: name=tomcat state=present - name: add Tomcat User user: name=tomcat group=tomcat home=/usr/share/tomcat createhome=no sudo: True - name: Download Tomcat get\_url: url=[http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.1/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.1.tar.gz](http://archive.apache.org/dist/tomcat/tomcat-8/v8.0.1/bin/apache-tomcat-8.0.1.tar.gz) dest=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.1.tar.gz - name: Extract archive command: chdir=/usr/share /bin/tar -xvf /opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.1.tar.gz -C /opt/ creates=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.1 - name: Symlink Install directory file: src=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.1 path=/usr/share/tomcat state=link - name: Configure Tomcat server template: src=server.xml dest=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/ notify: restart tomcat - name: Configure Tomcat users template: src=tomcat-users.xml dest=/usr/share/tomcat/conf/ notify: restart tomcat - name: copy mmc.war to webapps copy: src=files/mmc.war dest=/usr/share/tomcat/webapps/ - name: Set Java\_opts for tomcat lineinfile: dest=/opt/apache-tomcat-8.0.1/bin/setenv.sh line=‘export JAVA\_OPTS="-Xms1024M -Xmx1024M -XX:NewSize=512m -XX:MaxNewSize=512m -XX:PermSize=256m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true’ create=yes state=present mode=0555 - name: install Tomcat init script copy: src=files/tomcat-init.sh dest=/etc/init.d/tomcat mode=0755 #- name: Restart Tomcat # command: service tomcat restart #- name: stop Tomcat # command: /usr/share/tomcat/bin/shutdown.sh - name: Start Tomcat service: name=tomcat state=restarted enabled=yes - name: wait for tomcat to start wait\_for: port=8080 delay=10 ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:18pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/5 "2016-03-14T14:18:06Z")
- name: wait for tomcat to start wait\_for: port=8080 delay=10 ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 2:31pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/6 "2016-03-14T14:31:24Z")
I posted my playbook could please look an eye on it ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:20pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/7 "2016-03-14T15:20:06Z")
Looks good, as I said, I suggest adding something like - name: give tomcat some time to start up pause: seconds={{ tomcat\_startup\_delay | default(30) }} delegate\_to: localhost … before your wait\_for because of the port-grabbed-but-not-yet-listening problem mentioned above. You might want to delegate the wait\_for to localhost as well so that you are checking it is available from a remote machine too, depending on your needs. Also I notice you have some notify: restart\_tomcat statements in your playbook, implying you are using a handler to restart tomcat. I don’t use handlers myself but it possible that tomcat will be being restarted after all the steps in your playbook have completed, which you probably don’t want straight after waiting for tomcat to come back up. Hope this helps, Jon ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:47pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/8 "2016-03-14T15:47:01Z")
I would like to know - name: give tomcat some time to start up pause: seconds={{ tomcat\_startup\_delay | default(30) }} delegate\_to: localhost need to be between the start tomcat and the wait for or complete before start tomcat ; also I want to let you know that i am testing that locally I don’t have any remote host ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/9 "2016-03-14T15:55:34Z")
still having the same issue after adding the pause ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 3:55pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/10 "2016-03-14T15:55:36Z")
Yes, my suggestion is between the start tomcat and the wait\_for ---
**Author:** ![GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6bbea6/32.png) [@GBANE\_FETIGUE](https://forum.ansible.com/u/GBANE_FETIGUE)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:00pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/11 "2016-03-14T16:00:09Z")
Yeah I tried and still not working ---
**Author:** ![j.r.hawkesworth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a3d4f5/32.png) [@j.r.hawkesworth](https://forum.ansible.com/u/j.r.hawkesworth)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:04pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/12 "2016-03-14T16:04:56Z")
Is tomcat configured to listen on 8080 ? I notice you have a custom server.xml are there errors in tomcat logs? ---
**Author:** ![Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b782af/32.png) [@Serge\_van\_Ginderacht](https://forum.ansible.com/u/Serge_van_Ginderacht)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2016, 4:06pm UTC](https://forum.ansible.com/t/start-tomcat/20855/13 "2016-03-14T16:06:45Z")
Did you ever manually check if that tomcat eventually starts?