I LOVE YOU!!!
It was because of the servlet.jar! I just deleted it and now it works!!!
But could somebody tell me what is the point of putting a tomcat version with
an incompatible version of the servlet api in the same download directory???
grrr...
Well, I feel better now!
Thanks a lot!
MA
Luba Powell wrote:
> Could it be that those packages have incompatible classes:
> jakarta-tomcat-4.0-b5.zip & jakarta-servletapi-4.0-b5.zip
>
> Why do you need jakarta-servletapi? tomcat supports servlets.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc-andre Thibodeau" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 10:54 AM
> Subject: I need help!!
>
> >
> > I spent too many hours trying to solve my problem. The next step will
> > be a psychotherapist!
> >
> > Here is all I did:
> >
> > Trying to install: Tomcat 4.0 b5
> > JDK: 1.3.0
> > OS: Linux 6.1
> > downloaded: jakarta-tomcat-4.0-b5.zip & jakarta-servletapi-4.0-b5.zip
> >
> > unzipped both of them
> > set CATALINA_HOME correctly
> > set JAVA_HOME correctly
> > set TOMCAT_HOME to same directory as CATALINA_HOME
> > put servlet.jar file downloaded in $CATALINA_HOME/lib
> > executed $CATALINA_HOME/bin/startup.sh
> >
> > and here's the important parts of the logfiles I get:
> >
> > localhost_examples_log.2001-06-15.txt
> > -----------------------------
> > 2001-06-15 10:30:12 StandardContext[/examples]: Exception starting
> > filter Compression Filter
> > java.lang.ClassCastException: compressionFilters.CompressionFilter
> > at
> >
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilter
> Config.java:250)
> >
> > at
> >
> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFil
> terConfig.java:311)
> >
> > (... and other ClassCastExceptions, all related to filters)
> >
> > localhost_log_2001-06-15.txt
> > ----------------------
> > 2001-06-15 10:49:34 StandardContext[]: Servlet threw load() exception
> > javax.servlet.ServletException: Class
> > org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet is not a Servlet
> > at
> > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:813)
> >
> > ----- Root Cause -----
> > java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet
> > at
> > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:810)
> >
> > (... and other ServletExceptions)
> >
> > If anybody can help, I would appreciate it a lot!
> >
> > MA
> >
