Hello, thanks for the reply Phillip I just reinstalled tomcat (to start from scratch) and placed the war file in the webapps dir. This seemed to get processed right away then I copied the supporting .jar files into the web-inf/lib directory.
This is from the log file. 2003-03-12 12:21:05 StandardHost[localhost]: Installing web application at context path /fop from URL file:C:/Program Files/Apache Group/Tomcat 4.1/webapps/fop 2003-03-12 12:21:05 WebappLoader[/fop]: Deploying class repositories to work directory C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\fop 2003-03-12 12:21:05 WebappLoader[/fop]: Deploy class files /WEB-INF/classes to C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\fop\WEB-INF\classes 2003-03-12 12:21:05 StandardManager[/fop]: Seeding random number generator class java.security.SecureRandom 2003-03-12 12:21:05 StandardManager[/fop]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed 2003-03-12 12:21:05 StandardWrapper[/fop:default]: Loading container servlet default 2003-03-12 12:21:05 StandardWrapper[/fop:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker 2003-03-12 12:21:54 HTMLManager: list: Listing contexts for virtual host 'localhost' This is from stderr.txt INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/120 config=C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1\conf\jk2.properties Mar 12, 2003 12:21:05 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester error SEVERE: Parse Error at line 26 column 23: The content of element type "servlet-mapping" must match "(servlet-name,url-pattern)". org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: The content of element type "servlet-mapping" must match "(servlet-name,url-pattern)". at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(ErrorHand lerWrapper.java:232) at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.error(ErrorHandlerWrapper.java:17 3) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:37 1) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(XMLErrorReporter.java:30 5) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(XMLDTDValidator. java:1918) at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(XMLDTDValidator.java:8 51) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(XMLDocu mentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1008) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatc her.dispatch(XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.java:1469) at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(XMLDocume ntFragmentScannerImpl.java:329) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:525) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.DTDConfiguration.parse(DTDConfiguration.java:581) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java:152) at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(AbstractSAXParser.java:117 5) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1495) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfig.ja va:282) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:639) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java: 243) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:166) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3567) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:8 21) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:807) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:579) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer.install(StandardHostDeployer.j ava:257) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:772) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployWARs(HostConfig.java:502) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:410) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.run(HostConfig.java:1012) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) I couldn't find any reference to this in my mail list archives, bugzilla, or the faq. I know that its something that this is probably something to do with an incomplete setup. I have read that tomcat comes with detailed instructions on howto install fop but i'm unable to locate this. Any help would be appreciated. oh yeah, right now i'm using fop-0.20.4 -Adam --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]