Issue

• The a JBoss server profile fails to start on Windows if the $PROFILE_HOME is not located with the $JBOSS_HOME/server directory

• Server is started with the -Djboss.server.base.dir and -Djboss.server.base.url parameters :

  run.bat -b 0.0.0.0 -c server_profile -Djboss.server.base.dir=$PROFILE_HOME  -Djboss.server.base.url=file:$PROFILE_HOME
  

• Server fails to start with the following message:

  java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Null path
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.vfs.helpers.PathTokenizer.getTokens(PathTokenizer.java:106)
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.vfs.helpers.PathTokenizer.applySpecialPathsToTokens(PathTokenizer.java:260)
       at org.jboss.virtual.VFSUtils.stripProtocolToTokens(VFSUtils.java:1112)
       at org.jboss.virtual.VFSUtils.stripProtocol(VFSUtils.java:1128)
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.cache.IterableVFSCache.findContext(IterableVFSCache.java:48)
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.cache.CombinedVFSCache.findContext(CombinedVFSCache.java:112)
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.registry.DefaultVFSRegistry.getFile(DefaultVFSRegistry.java:91)
       at org.jboss.virtual.plugins.registry.DefaultVFSRegistry.getFile(DefaultVFSRegistry.java:140)
       at org.jboss.virtual.VFS.getRoot(VFS.java:264)