setup an ASx server to deploy remotely (i.e. on openshift) and point to a directory that does not have standalone/deployments already in it - then at publish time you get errors like:

"failed to copy to /home/max/work/standalone/deployments/test.war/META-INF/MANIFEST.MF on host neo6.gva.redhat.com
Missing element for : ''"

Not very informative.

If you fix the server to point to a directory that have standalone/deployments already things starts working again.

The error should be more informative - optimally ask the user if the missing directories should be made ?

Didnt we at some point have a "verify" button for the remote setup to check if directories were present?