Problem
you may get “Application already exists in the configuration repository” error while trying to deploy a application to websphere application server.
This error can come under following conditions:
- Deploying an application and it already exists
- Re-Deploying an application whose deployment failed before for some reason
- undeployment failed but there is no reference of the application in admin console
For example, you are deploying a large application using wsadmin and got a soap timeout or out of memory before application is saved. Then you change the timeout/heap and try to deploy your applciation… in this case above error can come.
Solution:
- Stop the target JVM
- Delete all the contents of temp and wstempfolder.
- Go to WAS_INSTALL_DIR\profiles\<profileName>\config\cells\<cellName>\nodes\<nodeName>\
- Edit the file serverindex.xml for an entry for our application within the tag<deployedApplications>xxx.ear</deployedApplications> (delete this line)
- Do a search for your ear file in the file system and delete all the occurrences of the XXX.earfolder
- Restart WAS
- deploy the application
WebSphere Application Server Notes 
Hello,
We followed all the steps and are not able to deploy the application.
Is there anything more that we can do.
Thanks
Dilip
Me too… I have followed these steps and still am getting this error when trying to deploy.
Thanks Bob
Hi All,
I have removed the files from wstemp, then it is working fine for me.
Shyam.
Use find command to search the particlar application..
find -name “Applicationname.ear” and remove all the instance..For me I have to remove it from .
./WebSphere/AppServer/profiles/Dmgr01/wstemp/0/workspace/cells/WAS8Cell01/applications/
and
./profiles/Dmgr01/config/cells/WAS8Cell01/applications/
This helped me. Thanks a lot!