maven cargo deploy to war file fails to deploy as part of teamcity

Question

The same deployment works correctly on windows, and on linux - but using teamcity and its built in maven I get an error. Local deploys, and the error is :

the container configuration directory "/BuildAgent/work/68d4a71c8dc5cfd9/target/cargo/configurations/tomcat8x" does not exist. Please configure the container before attempting to perform any local deployment.

The relevant section of pom looks like this :

 <plugin>
                <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
                <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>1.4.8</version>
                <configuration>
                    <container>
                        <containerId>tomcat8x</containerId>
                        <home>${env.CATALINA_HOME}</home>
                    </container>
                    <configuration>
                        <type>existing</type>
                        <home>${env.CATALINA_HOME}</home>
                    </configuration>
                    <deployables>
                        <deployable>
                            <groupId>com.myapp</groupId>
                            <artifactId>ROOT</artifactId>
                            <type>war</type>
                            <properties>
                                <context>${project.build.finalName}</context>
                            </properties>
                        </deployable>
                    </deployables>
                    <deployer>
                        <type>installed</type>
                    </deployer>
                </configuration>
            </plugin>

Have I missed a section of the pom that is required for ubuntu ? Does teamcity do something different to vanilla maven ? I am using same version of maven in both environments.

Answer 1

Does your deploy work when you perform it on linux machine outside TeamCity? Is ${env.CATALINA_HOME} defined correctly?

My guess is that ${env.CATALINA_HOME} is pointing to the wrong place