It would seem as if you don't have a <web-app>
</web-app> wrapping all the entries in you web.xml. If so it should be trivial to put it in Best Wishes John Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 01865 718666 Fax: 01865 718600 -----Original Message----- From: Scott Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 5:00 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: new tomcat user: migrating app from resin Shapira, Yoav wrote: >Howdy, >Some more information would be nice ;) > >1) Did you verify that tomcat installed correctly, e.g. by running the >examples? > yes. > >2) Are there any errors in the tomcat logs relevant to parsing / >deploying / starting your web-app? > yes. 2002-06-04 16:20:52 ContextConfig[/accountaccess-4-3] Parse error in application web.xml org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Element type "web-app" must be declared. at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.reportError(XMLParser.java) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.reportRecoverableXMLError(X MLValidator.java) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.validateElementAndAttribute s(XMLValidator.java) at org.apache.xerces.validators.common.XMLValidator.callStartElement(XMLValidat or.java) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner$ContentDispatcher.dispatch(XM LDocumentScanner.java) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLDocumentScanner.parseSome(XMLDocumentScanner. java) at org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java) at org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderAdapter.parse(XMLReaderAdapter.java) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java) at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java) at org.apache.catalina.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:275) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfig.ja va:256) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:824) at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java: 224) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3345) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:785) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:454) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.install(StandardHost.java:714) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:300) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:389) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:232) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSuppor t.java:155) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1131) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:614) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:343) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:388) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:506) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:781) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) 2002-06-04 16:20:52 ContextConfig[/accountaccess-4-3]: Occurred at line 7 column 10 2002-06-04 16:20:52 ContextConfig[/accountaccess-4-3]: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s) 2002-06-04 16:20:52 StandardContext[/accountaccess-4-3]: Error initializing naming context for context /accountaccess-4-3 2002-06-04 16:20:52 StandardContext[/accountaccess-4-3]: Context startup failed due to previous errors > >3) What do you mean when you say you couldn't create a context in >server.xml? > not that i couldn't create a context but that it had no affect. ignorant as i am :-) , i think the parse error above indicates the problem and that it will not be trivial to get out app running under tomcat which is unfortunate. i really wanted to test tomcat and to compare performance of the two servers. > > >Yoav Shapira >Millennium ChemInformatics > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: Scott Dudley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 11:23 AM >>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >>Subject: new tomcat user: migrating app from resin >> >> >>i've installed tomcat 4.0.3-1 from rpm and am attempting to migrate an >>app that's currently running under resin. i copied the app tree to >>$CATALINA_HOME/webapps and restarted tomcat but when i attempt to >> >access > >>the app, i get a 404. i also tried to create a context in >>$CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml to no avail. >> >>$ ls -l $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/accountaccess-4-3/WEB-INF/web.xml >>lrwxrwxrwx 1 tomcat4 tomcat4 58 Jun 4 17:18 >>/var/tomcat4/webapps/accountaccess-4-3/WEB-INF/web.xml -> >>/home/scott/pws/telmast-app/accountaccess-4-3/conf/web.xml >> >>what am i missing folks? 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