If I take one of the jsp pages located in templates/jsp/layouts/html and place them in another folder I created called jsp that is located right under the jetspeed folder. I changed the taglib uri to read.... <%@ taglib uri='/WEB-INF/templates/jsp/tld/template.tld' prefix='jetspeed' %> Now I called the page without using a servlet and I get a Servlet Exception. I looked at the logs and stuff and it does not seem to like this line in the jsp page <head> <base href="<jetspeed:uriLookup type="BaseURL" />"> <link href="css/default.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet"> </head> How can I fix this? Basically I just want to be able to access jsp pages without having to use servlets? HERE IS THE ERROR [Fri Sep 07 10:13:38 CDT 2001] -- ERROR -- Error processing uriLookup-tag, parameter: BaseURL Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException Stack Trace follows: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.jetspeed.util.URILookup.getWebAppBaseDirURI(URILookup.java:682) at org.apache.jetspeed.services.jsp.tags.URILookupTag.doStartTag(URILookupTag.j ava:184) at jsp._0002fjsp_0002ffaq_0005flayout_0002ejspfaq_0005flayout_jsp_4._jspService (_0002fjsp_0002ffaq_0005flayout_0002ejspfaq_0005flayout_jsp_4.java:67) at org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:119) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspCountedServlet.service(JspServlet.ja va:130) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet$JspServletWrapper.service(JspServlet.ja va:282) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:429) at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:500) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.doService(ServletWrapper.java:405) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:287) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:79 7) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:743) at org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC onnectionHandler.java:213) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]