How to extract war file to target using inaccessible

Question

I am using the unarchive Ansible module and does not seem to work for extracting a war file. It works great for.

There is also a setype switch: "enter part of the context of the SELinux file", which I'm not sure if it can be used to set the file type as a war.

I tried this:

 -name: Unpack war unarchive: src=~/wars/mywar.war dest=/tmp/deploy setype=war copy=no 

it gives an error: msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed. msg: Failed to find handler to unarchive. Make sure the required command to extract the file is installed.

When I do not use 'setype', I get the same error again.

How can I extract a war file using Ansible?

Answer 1

You should be able to unlock the .war file with Ansible. Are you sure unzip is installed and the unzip command is available on your target system?

By Unrelated documentation : "gtar / unzip command is required on the target host"

Answer 2

According to the Ansible documentation for the unarchive module , it only supports tar, gzip, bzip2, and xz compressed files. I quickly looked through the source and did not see any signs that it supports unpacking military files. You will probably have to unzip the war file manually by calling / path / to / java / bin / jar manually through a command or shell module.

Edit: In addition, the setype parameter is not intended to indicate the type of archive file. This parameter is associated with SELinux (Security-Enhanced Linux). If you are new to SELinux, you probably will not need to use this option at all.

Answer 3

I had this error with the ZIP archive - it failed because the ZIP was incomplete. Make sure you can run unzip ~/wars/mywar.war directly on the server, and you can get a more useful error message.