Gary - I got this error early on and it was caused by having two Tomcat sessions going at once. Maybe the Windows service and then another instance started manually?? Look at Task Manager and see if there is already a Tomcat.exe running when you try to start it up again.
Roger Whitcomb Computer Associates Senior Software Engineer Development Phone: +1 408 965 8653 FAX: +1 408 965 8805 [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- From: Gary Frick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 11:43 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: I'm getting no responses to my requests for help on this list Adrian, I'm currently running on XP Professional using JSDK 1.4.0, JRTE 1.4.0 and Tomcat 4.0.3. Is this what you are requesting? Please excuse me, but I'm new to Tomcat and JAVA. Thanks, Gary ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 2:46 PM Subject: Re: I'm getting no responses to my requests for help on this list > > Although , a good description of the error output , what about platform , > JVM maker and version etc... > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Gary Frick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 10:30 AM > Subject: I'm getting no responses to my requests for help on this list > > > Hi All, > > I've been working day and night trying to get Tomcat started and to get > past the HTTP 500 error when trying to invoke the JSP examples. I've been > combing the archives, but I'm not seeing any real solutions. What must I do > and where must I go to get help? > > First it would be helpful to know what is going on. When I try to start > Tomcat I get the following (See below. Only providing first few lines of > trace). When I try //localhost/examples I can execute the servlets, but > not the JSPs. On the JSPs I always get HTTP Status 500 messages. I've > followed the recommendations to recheck the classpaths and environment > variables (JAVA_HOME and TOMCAT_HOME), but this hasn't helped. For one > thing I don't understand why port 8080 is already in use. How can I check? > > Thanks, > Gary > > Catalina.start: LifecycleException: null.open: java.net.BindException: > Address > already in use: JVM_Bind:8080 > LifecycleException: null.open: java.net.BindException: Address already in > use: > JVM_Bind:8080 > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector.initialize(HttpConne > ctor.java:1130) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.initialize(StandardService.j > ava:454) > at > org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.initialize(StandardServer.jav > a:553) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:780) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) > at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) > at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) > at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) > ----- Root Cause ----- > java.net.BindException: Address already in use: JVM_Bind:8080 > at > org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpConnector.open(HttpConnector.j > ava:950) > > > > > -- > 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]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>