Hi all My env - Tomcat3.1 relese build on win2000 When I try to shutdown and restart tomcat, I get following message on console Starting tomcat check tomcat.log for errors The web server starts, but my application will not run. If I restart windows and start tomcat, every thing is fine. But you know, this is a pain in development senario. Can any one please help My Log file tomcat.log as follows Context log: path="/examples" Adding context path="/examples" docBase="webapps/examples" Context log: path="" Adding context path="" docBase="webapps/ROOT" Context log: path="/test" Adding context path="/test" docBase="webapps/test" Context log: path="/tops" Adding context path="/tops" docBase="webapps/tops" Context log: path="/poi" Adding context path="/poi" docBase="webapps/poi" Starting tomcat install="C:\jakarta-tomcat" home="C:\jakarta-tomcat" classPath="C:\jakarta-tomcat\classes;C:\jakarta-tomcat\lib\webserver.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat\lib\jasper.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat\lib\xml.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat\lib\servlet.jar;C:\jdk1.3\lib\tools.jar;C:\jdk1.3\lib;.;C:\pak\parser.jar;C:\pak\jce1_2_1.jar;C:\pak\sunjce_provider.jar" Context log: path="/admin" Automatic context load docBase="C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\admin" Context log: path="/admin" Adding context path="/admin" docBase="C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\admin" Context log: path="/dw-travel" Automatic context load docBase="C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\dw-travel" Context log: path="/dw-travel" Adding context path="/dw-travel" docBase="C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\dw-travel" Context log: path="/dw-travel" File not found C:\jakarta-tomcat\webapps\dw-travel\WEB-INF\web.xml, using only defaults Starting endpoint port="8080" handler="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler" Starting endpoint port="8007" handler="org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler" Prathapan _____________________________________________________ Chat with your friends as soon as they come online. Get Rediff Bol at http://bol.rediff.com Participate in crazy auctions at http://auctions.rediff.com/auctions/