Deploying ORS 6.8.3 is only loading ors-config.json when tomcat resides in a volume.

[jannefleischer]

Is there an existing issue for this?

• I have searched the existing issues

Problem description

I moved our deployment of ors to a new server, hence I needed to redeploy everything, except I had well calculated graphs and a working configuration.

Since I couldn't find a documentation for 6.8.3 (at first...its only available in git) I just ran sudo docker compose up -d and hoped for the best. When starting it (without building it myself) the docker-entrypoint.sh realized there is a config file in /home/ors/ors-conf and copies it to /home/ors/ors-core/ors-config.json. Then it deploys the ors.war - BUT the .war file doesn't seems to recognize there is the config file it should work with and instead starts with the default location /home/ors/tomcat/webapps/ors/WEB-INF/classes/ors-config.json. Therefore only a default profile is loaded.

Only when I made sure tomcat is deployed into a persistent volume (or in my case a bind [after using docker cp ors:/home/ors/tomcat ./tomcat]) at least on second run of my docker compose up -d my config is used and my existing graphs are loaded.

Proposed solution

So, since 6.8.3 is quite old I don't expect this to be fixed, but wanted to let people know who might struggling with this, that there migh be an issue (and what might be a solution).

Additional context

There are issues raised before that are similiar. I think they are somewhat fixed, but don't know the specifics:
#742, #745.

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