ah, did you install the JDK (if so, which version?) and provide the 
%JDK_HOME% system variable?  Also, if you did this, did you add 
JDK_HOME/bin to the beginning of your system PATH variable?

Jake

At 02:16 PM 8/16/2002 +1000, you wrote:
>Only recently joined the list and was unsure whether anyone saw my orginal
>message. I installed the latest version of Tomcat 4.1.8 (on a WinXP
>machine), and after it installed I went to http://localhost:8080/ and it
>came up with the error:
>
>HTTP Status 500 -
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>----
>
>type Exception report
>
>message
>
>description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it
>from fulfilling this request.
>
>exception
>
>org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
>         at
>org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:4
>77)
>         at
>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:1
>82)
>         .....
>
>
>Root Cause
>
>org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
>
>An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null
>
>Generated servlet error:
>     [javac] Compiling 1 source file
>     [javac] Modern compiler not found - looking for classic compiler
>
>         ....
>---------------------------------
>Anyone got any ideas how to resolve this problem?
>
>Regards, Rob.
>
>
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