Hi Charles, It sounds like you have a problem with access rights as Michael pointed out. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1421288/what-causes-the-fail-deploy-u pload-failed-exception-null-error-message-in
You can 'cd' into the directory where you installed Tomcat. When you do 'ls -al', it will tell you who the owner is for the files. On my linux installation, I run Tomcat under a user named openmrs, and my permissions are as follows... drwxrwxr-x 9 openmrs users 4096 Jul 23 2009 apache-tomcat-6.0.20 You can use the 'chown' command like this to set the owner of the files recursively... chown the_username_that_tomcat_runs_as -R /yourpath/apache-tomcat-6.whatever Hope this helps. Thanks, James -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Charles C. Chou Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2012 11:01 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OPENMRS-IMPLEMENTERS] Linux server installation Hi, I am trying to install OpenMRS on a Linux server. I successfully installed tomcat6 and mysql. I was able to bring up the tomcat application manager but when I tried to deploy openmrs.war I get the following error in my tomcat log (manager.2012-02-07.log): Feb 7, 2012 10:17:09 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log SEVERE: HTMLManager: FAIL - Deploy Upload Failed, Exception: null java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.util.http.fileupload.DefaultFileItem.write(DefaultFile Item.java:398) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doPost(HTMLManagerServlet .java:250) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica tionFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt erChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv e.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv e.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(Authenticator Base.java:563) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java :127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java :102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve. java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:2 98) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:85 9) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process( Http11Protocol.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:679) At first I thought it was a permissions problem due to SELinux but the error persists even after I disabled SELinux. Can anyone tell me what the problem was? Thanks! Regards, Charles Chou _________________________________________ To unsubscribe from OpenMRS Implementers' mailing list, send an e-mail to [email protected] with "SIGNOFF openmrs-implement-l" in the body (not the subject) of your e-mail. [mailto:[email protected]?body=SIGNOFF%20openmrs-implement-l]
