When war file is not unpacked, RepositoryServlet fails to start

RepositoryServlet fails to start in case using unpackWARs="false" option to run cms.war without extraction in Tomcat like the following example (in $CATALINA_BASE/conf/server.xml):

<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="false" autoDeploy="true">

It throws a servlet exception in the following code (RepositoryServlet.java):

if (!storageLocation.startsWith("/") && !storageLocation.startsWith("file:")) {
// try to parse the relative path
storageLocation = config.getServletContext().getRealPath(storageLocation);
if (storageLocation == null)

{ throw new ServletException("Cannot determine repository location " + config.getInitParameter(REPOSITORY_DIRECTORY_PARAM)); }

}

ServletContext#getRealPath() may return null in case that the cms.war is running without being unpacked.

So, I think it's better to use a default storage directory instead in this case under the current working directory (e.g, "./repository_storage").