Tomcat Deployment Error

[Fabian Scott]

I'm trying to deploy a warfile using the task "Deploy Tomcat Application" and keep getting an error. What could this be?

build 13-Oct-2016 10:14:10 war:
build 13-Oct-2016 10:14:10       [war] Building war: /bamboo-home/xml-data/build-dir/PMP-PTP-JOB1/portlets/perfect-mobile-services-activation-module-portlet/mybuilds/dist/WarFile.war
build 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 
build 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 BUILD SUCCESSFUL
build 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Total time: 36 seconds
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Finished task 'Create WAR file' with result: Success
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Starting task 'Deploy Development' of type 'com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.bamboo-tomcat-plugin:deployAppTask'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Deploying application with war file '/portlets/perfect-mobile-services-activation-module-portlet/mybuilds/dist/WarFile.war' to context '/test' to server 'http:/10.10.100.51/manager/'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Confirm expected Tomcat manager location.
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Error occurred while running Task 'Deploy Development(3)' of type com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.bamboo-tomcat-plugin:deployAppTask.
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Host name may not be null
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpHost.<init>(HttpHost.java:68)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpHost.<init>(HttpHost.java:107)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.setURI(HttpMethodBase.java:281)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.HttpMethodBase.<init>(HttpMethodBase.java:221)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at org.apache.commons.httpclient.methods.GetMethod.<init>(GetMethod.java:89)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.manager.TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.getTomcatVersionFromServerInfo(TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.java:293)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.manager.TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.confirmTomcatVersionThroughServerInfo(TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.java:255)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.manager.TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.getURLPrefix(TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.java:241)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.manager.TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.deployApplication(TomcatApplicationManagerImpl.java:158)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.plugins.tomcat.tasks.DeployAppTask.execute(DeployAppTask.java:84)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.lambda$executeTasks$201(TaskExecutorImpl.java:317)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTaskWithPrePostActions(TaskExecutorImpl.java:246)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.executeTasks(TaskExecutorImpl.java:317)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.task.TaskExecutorImpl.execute(TaskExecutorImpl.java:118)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.build.pipeline.tasks.ExecuteBuildTask.call(ExecuteBuildTask.java:74)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent.build(DefaultBuildAgent.java:215)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl$1.call(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:139)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl$1.call(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:130)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.variable.CustomVariableContextImpl.withVariableSubstitutor(CustomVariableContextImpl.java:221)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.BuildAgentControllerImpl.waitAndPerformBuild(BuildAgentControllerImpl.java:129)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.v2.build.agent.DefaultBuildAgent$1.run(DefaultBuildAgent.java:137)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.utils.BambooRunnables$1.run(BambooRunnables.java:51)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWith(ImpersonationHelper.java:31)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper.runWithSystemAuthority(ImpersonationHelper.java:20)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at com.atlassian.bamboo.security.ImpersonationHelper$1.run(ImpersonationHelper.java:52)
error 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running post build plugin 'Artifact Copier'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running post build plugin 'npm Cache Cleanup'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running post build plugin 'Clover Results Collector'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running post build plugin 'Docker Container Cleanup'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Finalising the build...
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Stopping timer.
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Build PMP-PTP-JOB1-21 completed.
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running on server: post build plugin 'NCover Results Collector'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running on server: post build plugin 'Build Hanging Detection Configuration'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running on server: post build plugin 'Clover Delta Calculator'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Running on server: post build plugin 'Maven Dependencies Postprocessor'
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 All post build plugins have finished
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Generating build results summary...
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:18 Saving build results to disk...
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:19 Logging substituted variables...
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:19 Indexing build results...
simple 13-Oct-2016 10:14:19 Finished building PMP-PTP-JOB1-21.

[mattfrankenfield]

Have you checked DNS? I have seen this before when there is no A record.