How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running
I recently upgraded from tomcat 3 to tomcat 4.1.12 and am having trouble debugging new jsp pages as I add them. Whereas tomcat 3 would send the error output of a jsp to the html page (making it easy to identify the problem, fix it, and test it again), tomcat 4 sends the output to the context's log file. This would not be so bad, but the log file is locked by my operating system (Windows 98 se) until tomcat is shutdown. The upshot is that for every error, I have to shut down tomcat to see what the error was. Is there any way to see the error output of a jsp page without shutting down tomcat either by a) having the output sent to the html stream; or b) having the log file accessible while tomcat is running; or c) . . . ? Thanks, - Steve Peterson -- Steven Peterson, President Frontier Productions, Inc. 310 Wesley Drive Chapel Hill, NC 27516 http://www.frontierproductions.net Tel: 919-942-1386 Fax: 919-933-2677 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe;jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-help;jakarta.apache.org
Re: How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running
Steven Peterson wrote: what the error was. Is there any way to see the error output of a jsp page without shutting down tomcat either by a) having the output sent to the html stream; or b) having the log file accessible while tomcat is running; or c) . . . ? If you do your development on a Linux or Unix box, you can do b) with tail -f logfile while Tomcat's running and writing to the file. As far as I know, there's no way around the questionable file locking semantics implemented in Windows -Paul -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe;jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-help;jakarta.apache.org
Re: How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running
If you do your development on a Linux or Unix box, you can do b) with tail -f logfile while Tomcat's running and writing to the file. As far as I know, there's no way around the questionable file locking semantics implemented in Windows -Paul If you install Cygwin on a Win32 machine, you can get tail -f to work under Windows as well. In fact, it is part of the default installation I believe. I have done this and it works beautifully. Regards, John -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe;jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: mailto:tomcat-user-help;jakarta.apache.org
