Trying to deploy flowable-rest.war

Flowable Engine
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Hi! I’m new using Flowable and im following the flowable open source documentation. Getting Started · Flowable Open Source Documentation

Im not able to deploy the flowable-rest.war on my Tomcat 9 server. Its a fresh install.
When i try to run the war file this error is displayed (sorry the first part is in spanish):

FALLO - No se pudo arrancar la aplicación en trayectoria de contexto [/flowable-rest]
FALLO - Encontrada excepción [org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/flowable-rest]]]

Translation to english:
ERROR - Unable to start application in context path [/flowable-rest]
ERROR - Found exception [org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/flowable-rest]]]

I think the error is the JAVA version, my version is the 1.8.0_342

Thank you!

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Hi,

isn’t there any other loggig that could explain the error?

Regards,

Yvo

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I dont know, i dont have experience with Tomcat

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Hi

you were able to get these 2 log lines somewhere… right?
Was that all that was logged?

Yvo

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Hi yvo,

Yes, thats all the logs that i can read in the Tomcat UI when i try to run the flowable-rest.war

Thank you

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There should be more logs. Check the /logs folder of tomcat, it should contain all logs.

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For what its worth im having the same issues with latest OpenSource version of the war files. In my logs its talking about a read only file system of a default tomcat folder when H2 is starting, not the one that tomcat is installed in. After that its a cascade of errors, with luck all due to no db.

I have not yet had time to look into it for more details, but that might help someone else on this thread.

( it complains about /var/lib/tomcat but mine is installed in /var/lib/tomcat9 . Debian 11 system )

Might just change things to use a real DB, if sorting H2 out becomes too much trouble.

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Just a quick update, i went in and manually installed tomcat instead of using packages, and it works.