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  <title>Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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  <subtitle>Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</subtitle>
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  <updated>2026-04-06T15:02:16Z</updated>
  <dc:date>2026-04-06T15:02:16Z</dc:date>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Rodrigo Abril</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=111417896</id>
    <updated>2018-11-01T14:26:20Z</updated>
    <published>2018-11-01T14:26:20Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Hey Chema, thanks a lot!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Where i can find any info about how to install that version, I installed the Theme Generator with NPM but the theme-sdk is not registered in the npm repository&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;​​​​​​​Cheers.</summary>
    <dc:creator>Rodrigo Abril</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-11-01T14:26:20Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Chema Balsas</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=110906416</id>
    <updated>2018-09-07T12:08:26Z</updated>
    <published>2018-09-07T12:08:26Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Hey Rodrigo,&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We recently added some mitigation for this following the comments in
    the &lt;a
    href="https://github.com/liferay/liferay-themes-sdk/issues/67"&gt;Generator-Liferay-Theme:
    Do not insist on app server directory&lt;/a&gt; issue. &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;We still don't have &lt;a
    href="https://github.com/liferay/liferay-themes-sdk/issues/72"&gt;support
    for automatic Docker deploy&lt;/a&gt;, but if you install the latest
  8.0.0-beta.5 version of the generator, you should get an
  &amp;quot;Other&amp;quot; option when choosing your deployment method, so you
  should be able to at least move forward.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt; &lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Hope that helps (a little)&lt;/p&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>Chema Balsas</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-09-07T12:08:26Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Rodrigo Abril</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=110906116</id>
    <updated>2018-09-07T12:04:12Z</updated>
    <published>2018-09-07T12:04:12Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Hi guys&lt;br /&gt; Sorry to revive old treads, Is there any way to force
  it to accept a folder as a destination,&lt;br /&gt; We are developing with
  docker and the mounted folder is obviously not a tomcat server &lt;/p&gt;</summary>
    <dc:creator>Rodrigo Abril</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2018-09-07T12:04:12Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Jari Fredriksson</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=83897968</id>
    <updated>2016-12-19T12:58:30Z</updated>
    <published>2016-12-19T12:58:30Z</published>
    <summary type="html">Thanks. That was it, the app server dir to the tomcat (or wildfly) fixed that. I&amp;#39;m sure that I tried that too, but apparently not.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Happy camper!</summary>
    <dc:creator>Jari Fredriksson</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-12-19T12:58:30Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>RE: Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>David H Nebinger</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=83863846</id>
    <updated>2016-12-18T02:10:01Z</updated>
    <published>2016-12-18T02:10:01Z</published>
    <summary type="html">&lt;div class="quote-title"&gt;Jari Fredriksson:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I was forced to use this &amp;#34;Theme Generator&amp;#34; as the SDK created ant task did not lead to anything.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The SDK is there for legacy support for portlets, really, I don&amp;#39;t think the themes will work there going forward but admittedly I&amp;#39;m not 100% on that one.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;Now the Theme Generator asks for &amp;#34;Enter path to your app server directory: &amp;#34; and no matter what answer to it it just says &amp;#34;xxx doesn&amp;#39;t appear to be an app server directory.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You want to point at the tomcat root, no the Liferay home.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;blockquote&gt;I&amp;#39;m doing this on an Ubuntu PC and the the app server resides in /opt/liferay/liferay-ce-portal* and my Plugin SDK is connected using nfs from my NAS.&lt;/blockquote&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;So normally for development I recommend using a local bundle.  It&amp;#39;s easier to set up and run, you don&amp;#39;t have remote issues w/ deployment.  After you&amp;#39;re done w/ the development, then you can deploy to the main app server and do your testing and promotion as defined by your organization.</summary>
    <dc:creator>David H Nebinger</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-12-18T02:10:01Z</dc:date>
  </entry>
  <entry>
    <title>Theme Generator: doesn't appear to be an app server directory</title>
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    <author>
      <name>Jari Fredriksson</name>
    </author>
    <id>https://liferay.dev/c/message_boards/find_message?p_l_id=119785294&amp;messageId=83850829</id>
    <updated>2016-12-17T13:16:11Z</updated>
    <published>2016-12-17T13:16:11Z</published>
    <summary type="html">I have a strange problem with creating a new theme for Liferay 7. I was forced to use this &amp;#34;Theme Generator&amp;#34; as the SDK created ant task did not lead to anything. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Now the Theme Generator asks for &amp;#34;Enter path to your app server directory: &amp;#34; and no matter what answer to it it just says &amp;#34;xxx doesn&amp;#39;t appear to be an app server directory.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I&amp;#39;m doing this on an Ubuntu PC and the the app server resides in /opt/liferay/liferay-ce-portal* and my Plugin SDK is connected using nfs from my NAS.</summary>
    <dc:creator>Jari Fredriksson</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2016-12-17T13:16:11Z</dc:date>
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