Create subscription fails with "org.dbreplicator.replication.RepException: Can not find the xml file at specified path."

This is most likely due to a misconfiguration that's easy enough to miss. The hostname of the machine on which dbreplicator is running needs to be in publisher/subscriber.conf, but it also needs to be in dbreplicator.conf. This last is used in the dbreplicator script to specify an rmi host to java on startup. If it's not there, 127.0.0.1 is used, which nobody can connect to, thus the xml file transfer fails.