The reason it was biting me was because the struts.jar was in the CLASSPATH of the user who was starting the servlet container.
Better explanation here. So not obvious. http://w6.metronet.com/~wjm/tomcat/2001/Feb/msg00096.html rob wrote: > This seems to be a fairly common problem and I have gone through > the archives prior to posting this but have yet to discover a > solution. > > I'm getting that common error Error 500 No action instance for path > /login could be created. The difficulty I'm having is that the > application was and is running perfectly fine on a tomcat 4.x > servlet container. The error I'm observing are occuring under a > tomcat 3.x servlet container. > > I'm kind of desperate here, solutions would be good. > > Thanks > > Rob > > > struts-config.xml > <!-- Struts Login Form Bean --> > <form-bean name="LoginForm" type="web.LoginForm"/> > > <!-- Struts Login Global Forward --> > <forward name="login" path="/do/login"/> > > <!-- Struts Login Action Mapping --> > <!-- leading slash on path is present --> > <action path="/login" > type="web.LoginAction" > name="LoginForm" > input="/WEB-INF/pages/login.jsp" > scope="request"> > > <forward name="error" path="/WEB-INF/pages/login.jsp"/> > > </action> > > web.xml > <!-- struts action servlet mapping --> > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>action</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/do/*</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > login.jsp > <!-- start form tag --> > <!-- does not require prepended /do/ because I use --> > <!-- path servlet mapping --> > <html:form action="login"> > > WEB-INF/classes (shown to contain LoginAction.class) > % ls -l webapps/manager/WEB-INF/classes/web/ > total 6 > -rw-r--r-- 1 rtr users 1565 Sep 11 18:58 LoginAction.class > -rw-r--r-- 1 rtr users 735 Sep 11 18:58 LoginForm.class > > LoginAction.java > /* shown to indicate class is public */ > /* shown to indicate class extends Action */ > % grep 'public class' LoginAction.java > public class LoginAction extends Action > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
