Upgrading from 11.1.3 to 11.1.4 on Tomcat: 404 error

[c-markwell]

Hello,

Firstly thank you very much for continuing to develop Airsonic Advanced.

I'm having a problem upgrading from 11.1.3 to 11.1.4 using the Tomcat 9.0.70 and java 17.0.12 packages supplied by Debian 12.

I've copied the war file into the webapps directory and Tomcat has extracted it, but when I try to navigate to the homepage, I get a 404 Not Found error.

I wondered if it was because I was using Tomcat 9, so I downloaded the 10.1.31 binary distribution from apache.org, but that resulted in the same outcome.

I then stopped Tomcat and tried running the war file that uses the bundled Tomcat:

$ sudo -u tomcat java -jar airsonic-11.1.4.war

This worked.

Should it still work via copying the war file to the webapps folder of a Tomcat server? Or is the only option via running the war file? I have other webapps deployed via my Tomcat instance so I would rather not run a separate instance just for airsonic.

Here's the catalina.out output when copying the war file into the webapps directory:

[2024-10-12 10:55:42] [info] Deploying web application archive [/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/airsonic-advanced-11.1.4.war]
[2024-10-12 10:55:43] [warning] Unknown version string [6.0]. Default version will be used.
[2024-10-12 10:55:43] [warning] Unknown version string [6.0]. Default version will be used.
[2024-10-12 10:55:43] [warning] Unknown version string [5.0]. Default version will be used.
[2024-10-12 10:55:49] [info] At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
[2024-10-12 10:55:49] [info] Deployment of web application archive [/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/airsonic-advanced-11.1.4.war] has finished in [6,435] ms

I notice that the file structure has been reorganised between 11.1.3 and 11.1.4 (e.g. there's no index.html / index.jsp in the root folder) - I wonder if this is related?

Thank you!