Application already exists in the configuration repository
If you are getting this error it means that you have screwed you Websphere Application Server application to a very good extend that now you cannot deploy or un-deploy that particular application.
In order to fix this issue we need to do a manual process of deleting the application
Steps:
- Stop the Websphere Application Server
- Do a search for your ear file in the file system and delete all the occurrences of the XXX.ear folder
- Once we deleted these entire XXX.ear folders, delete all the contents of temp and wstemp folder.
- Now go to WAS_INSTALL_DIRprofiles<profileName>defaultconfigcells<cellName>nodes<nodeName>
- Edit the file serverindex.xml for an entry for our application within the tag
<deployedApplications>xxx.ear</deployedApplications> - Restart the Websphere Application Server
- Redeploy the application to the Websphere Application Server
