RAD - Websphere Application server won't start

Question

I am having issues with RAD7.

My server will not start for me today. I am working from home and connected to the VPN. Everything works except my server in RAD. It worked fine yesterday in work and had previously worked when I was at home but that was a few weeks ago.

Are there any settings that I should look out for? I have disabled my proxy settings in RAD and turned off everything in my firewall. I can ping all the DBs that the server is connecting to.

I have even removed all the projects from the server and it will still not start. It keeps trying and then times out after 300s.

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

I got a similar error while Starting WebSphere Commerce server v7. This error in my case was caused by me increasing the Maximum Heap size to 2096. I reduced the heap size to 1536 and it worked. None of the errors/trace files indicated this problem.

Answer 2

I had this problem too. Double-click on the server to open the server 'OVERVIEW' tab/view. Scroll down to the section under 'Optimize server start for development:'; uncheck 'Start server with a generated script'. This worked for me. good luck.

Answer 3

I have had this problem once before. I wasn't able to figure out what went wrong, but deleting that server and creating a new one (under Window -> Preferences -> Server -> WebSphere Application Server) fixed the problem.

Answer 4

阅读应用服务器日志。

Answer 5

Re the file not found exception. Make sure the directory path in Windows is of the CoRRectCase, eg, GALFTGA342130Node01Cell-> galftga342130Node01Cell. I've encountered this on various RAD installations.

Answer 6

after working several hours in my case I found the solution I hope it works for you ; change my JDK to alternate JRE

Answer 7

With reference to your following comment -

I looked at startserver.log and I saw a file not found exception for this file C:\\IBM\\SDP70\\runtimes\\base_v61\\profiles\\AppSrv01\\config\\cells\\GALFTGA342130Node0‌​1Cell\\nodes\\GALFTGA342130Node01\\serverindex.xml. I checked and the file exists but when I try to open it, I get told access denied.

this link may help you in understanding the problem. it says -

This is a permissions issue caused by the automatic port detection routine. If any profiles already exist and were created as a different user, the port detection routine will try to open the serverindex.xml file in each profile and will fail.

You should set appropriate permissions for your user.