Are you sure that telnet connections are allowed on this server.
Perhaps the default is secure shell only (ssh)
On Monday, May 21, 2001, at 07:21 , Vasanth Krishnan Venkatachalam wrote:
> I just noticed one more thing: when i try to telnet to that port on the
> command line, I'm connected and then right away disconnected, and the
> same error message appears in tomcat's window:
>
> telnet> open vader 19000
> Trying 128.195.1.4...
> Connected to vader.ics.uci.edu.
> Escape character is '^]'.
> Connection closed by foreign host.
> vvenkata@vader%
>
> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Vasanth Krishnan Venkatachalam wrote:
>
>> Hi, i've started tomcat run. when i point my browser to
>>
>> http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000
>>
>> i get a message in the window where tomcat is running. so obviously
>> tomcat
>> is detecting something, but it's generating this error:
>>
>> ContextManager: Error reading request, ignored - java.lang
>> .NullPointerException
>> at
>> org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnectio
>> n(HttpConnectionHandler.java, Compiled Code)
>> at
>> org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.j
>> ava, Compiled Code)
>> at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java, Compiled Code)
>>
>>
>>
>> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Michael Wentzel wrote:
>>
>>>> i tried that...status quo
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, 21 May 2001, Gilles Laborderie wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Try to point your browser to
>>>>>
>>>>> http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000/examples/jsp/source.jsp
>>>
>>> Start from the bottom up. Get it working for
>>> http://vader.ics.uci.edu:19000/ first so you know if
>>> tomcat is running at all first. Then try some of the
>>> core example jsp. Then and only then should you try your
>>> pages.
>>>
>>> Another way of checking to see if tomcat is listening for
>>> http request on port 19000(any particular reason for such
>>> an extreme port selection?) is to telnet to the machine on
>>> port 19000 then do a simple command line HTTP GET request
>>> and see what comes back.
>>>
>>> Sounds like tomcat isn't running though. Make sure nothing
>>> is using this port already and use tomcat run instead of
>>> tomcat start(if that should be your case) so you can view
>>> things as they are happening.
>>>
>>> Just a few starting points.
>>>
>>>
>>> ---
>>> Michael Wentzel
>>> Software Developer
>>> Software As We Think - http://www.aswethink.com
>>>
>>
>>
>
>
