If anyone's interested, I seem to have stumbled onto an answer for this problem. My web.xml was fine, but in my filter implementation class I was obtaining a reference to the ServletContext from HttpSession rather than from FilterConfig. Not sure why this matters, but when I changed it, Tomcat was suddenly able to start my webapp.
Jason Jason Wells wrote: > Christopher K. St. John wrote: > >> Jason Wells wrote: >> >>>> What error messages do you get, exactly? >>>> >>> None at all. Not even an XML parsing error. >>> >> >> Well, that's not much to go on. Random thoughts: How >> do you know it doesn't work? > > > > When I look at /manager/list, I see that my app is set to "stopped". I > also get a 404 in my browser when I visit the app > >> What, exactly, does it say in catalina.out? > > > It reports nothing out of the ordinary in catalina.out; just the nominal > status messages like "Starting service Tomcat-Apache". > > > How about if you turn debugging > > on in server.xml, anything interesting in catalina.out > > now? > > I'm not exactly clear on how Tomcat debugging works, but I tried setting > debug="1" on every non-commented-out tag in server.xml that had a > debug="0". Amidst the spam, I found a few interesting lines: > > XmlMapper: new null org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef filter > FilterDef[filterName=null, filterClass=null] > XmlMapper: org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef.setFilterName( Servlet > Mapped Filter) > XmlMapper: org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef.setFilterClass( > filters.ExampleFilter) > . > . > . > > These appear to be filters that are defined in the /examples app. Based > on the above, I was expecting to see a message like: > > XmlMapper: org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef.setFilterName( AuthFilter ) > XmlMapper: org.apache.catalina.deploy.FilterDef.setFilterClass( > com.xsilogy.steamtrap.AuthenticationFilter ) > > But, I never did. > > -- > Jason Wells > Web Architect > Xsilogy, Inc. > http://www.xsilogy.com/ > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body > of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". > > Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html > Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html > LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html > -- Jason Wells Web Architect Xsilogy, Inc. http://www.xsilogy.com/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and include in the body of the message "signoff SERVLET-INTEREST". Archives: http://archives.java.sun.com/archives/servlet-interest.html Resources: http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/external-resources.html LISTSERV Help: http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/user/user.html
