When you use the SAS Deployment Wizard to configure the SAS Web Infrastructure Platform, the following error might occur in a separate window:

The following problem was encountered while configuring SAS Web Infrastructure Platform:

Metadata deployment failed - 
 <SAS_config_dir>\Lev1\Web\Temp/SASApplicationInstrastructure.appxml

INFO  *** ApplicationMetadataUtility started on Apr 3, 2012 ***
INFO  Server odcmsaprp021s.corp.dvn.com:8561, user sasadm@saspw.
ERROR ApplicationMetadataUtility has failed.  Error parsing source XML.
ERROR The markup declarations contained or pointed to by the document  
      type declaration must be well-formed.
ApplicationMetadataUtility completed with errors.

The webinfpltfm_configure_*.log file, located in the SAS-configuration-directory\Lev1\Logs\Configure directory, will contain the previous messages as well as the following messages:

[echo] Log saved to 
       <SAS_config_dir>\Lev1\Logs\Configure\CreateApplicationMetadata.log
[echo] Return Code: 8
[propertyfile] Updating property file: 
     <SAS_config_dir>\Lev1\Logs\Configure\webinfpltfm_config_status.properties
[echo] Metadata deployment failed - 
       <SAS_config_dir>\Lev1\Web\Temp/SASApplicationInfrastructure.appxml

BUILD FAILED
. . .more text lines. . .

The Application Metadata Utility (AMU) requires network access, so this problem occurs if your system does not have network access. To determine whether you have network access, see whether you can connect to www.w3.org successfully from a browser on your system.

If the access to the network fails, there are two workarounds:

• Open the firewall to enable access to www.w3.org.
• Modify the Domain Name System (DNS) so that www.w3.org resolves to a local machine inside the firewall. The local machine does not actually need to serve content nor even exist. The XML parser just needs to detect a could not connect message or a 404 error in order to work. Usually, this redirection can be done by modifying C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts so that it includes the following:
  127.0.0.1 www.w3.org

  Including this information redirects www.w3.org requests to the local machine.

The two workarounds are temporary and can be removed as soon as the SAS Deployment Wizard configuration is complete.

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