JBoss Deployment Failure due to 'Resource-ref jdbc JiraDS Found in jboss-web.xml but Not in web.xml'
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Symptoms
Jira Application deployment fails, client requests return HTTP status code 404 Not Found. The following appears in the atlassian-jira.log:
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16:00:10,226 ERROR [MainDeployer] Could not initialise deployment: file:/opt/jboss-4.2.3.GA/server/default/deploy/jira.war/
org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: Failed to parse WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml; - nested throwable: (org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: resource-ref jdbc/JiraDS found in jboss-web.xml but not in web.xml)
Cause
The JNDI name for the DataSource connection pool has been declared in the container deployment descriptor but there is no matching resource-ref element in the WEb-INF/web.xml.
Resolution
Refer to the following article on How to Configure the Jira DataSource on JBoss. Make sure to check for spelling mistakes.
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