Symptom
- Upon upgrading BI 4.1 to 4.2 SP1 and configuring the Explorer application for Windows AD SSO (using the Vintella filter) as we had in 4.1 SP5, the Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8.
- After configuring the Explorer application for Windows AD SSO (using the Vintella filter) the Explorer web application fails to start in Tomcat 8.
The exception is:
SEVERE: Exception starting filter authFilter
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: The resource path [vsj.properties]is not valid
at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.validate(StandardRoot.java:250)
at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:212)
at org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot.getResource(StandardRoot.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContext.java:579)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContextFacade.getResourceAsStream(ApplicationContextFacade.java:210)
at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AbstractAuthenticator.getResource(AbstractAuthenticator.java:2107)
at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AbstractAuthenticator.getPropsFromFile(AbstractAuthenticator.java:2069)
at com.wedgetail.idm.sso.AuthFilter.init(AuthFilter.java:129)
at com.businessobjects.sdk.credential.WrappedResponseAuthFilter.init(WrappedResponseAuthFilter.java:59)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:279)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:260)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<(><<)>init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:105)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4573)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5192)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:725)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:701)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:717)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1096)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDirectory.run(HostConfig.java:1756)
at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.null(UnknownSource)at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:812)
Dec 23, 2015 4:54:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Dec 23, 2015 4:54:39 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/explorerX] startup failed due to previous errors
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Environment
SAP BusinessObjects BI Platform 4.2
SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.2
Apache Tomcat 8 (Bundled)
Product
SAP BusinessObjects Business Intelligence platform 4.2 ; SAP BusinessObjects Explorer 4.2
Keywords
KBA , BI-RA-EXP , Obsolete: Polestar, Explorer , BI-BIP-DEP , Webapp Deployment, Networking, Vulnerabilities, Webservices , Problem
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