I'm using TC 4.0.4, j2sdk1.4.0_01 and the securityfilter from sourceforge.net, which is a pseudo container managed JDBC/MySQL security realm. it's all running on win2000. i've also upgraded my commons-logging to 1.0.2 to see if that helps, but to no avail (although it did change the stack trace).
Here's the problem: it works fine when i deploy it in %CATALINA_HOME\webapps\ROOT, but if i try to deploy any app in a tomcat instance, for example %CATALINA_BASE\webapps\ROOT, an exception is thrown when I try to boot up the tomcat instance. It apears in the localhost log, whose excerpt follows: (additionaly, it may be a problem with the commons-logging. if anyone can tell, please let me know and i'll readress the issue with the appropriate party) Thanks, all. -Dan 2002-10-09 12:16:34 WebappLoader[/manager]: Deploying class repositories to work directory C:\contexts\sotx\work\Standalone\localhost\manager 2002-10-09 12:16:34 StandardManager[/manager]: Seeding random number generator class java.security.SecureRandom 2002-10-09 12:16:34 StandardManager[/manager]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed 2002-10-09 12:16:34 ContextConfig[/manager]: Added certificates -> request attribute Valve 2002-10-09 12:16:34 ContextConfig[/manager]: Configured an authenticator for method BASIC 2002-10-09 12:16:35 StandardWrapper[/manager:default]: Loading container servlet default 2002-10-09 12:16:35 default: init 2002-10-09 12:16:35 StandardWrapper[/manager:invoker]: Loading container servlet invoker 2002-10-09 12:16:35 invoker: init 2002-10-09 12:16:35 jsp: init 2002-10-09 12:16:35 WebappLoader[]: Deploying class repositories to work directory C:\contexts\sotx\work\Standalone\localhost\_ 2002-10-09 12:16:35 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/adrotate.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\adrotate.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:35 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/catalina.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\catalina.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:36 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-beanutils.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\commons-beanutils.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:36 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-collections.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\commons-collections.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:36 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-digester.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\commons-digester.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:36 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/commons-logging.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\commons-logging.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:36 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/dbtags.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\dbtags.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/jakarta-oro.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\jakarta-oro.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/jakarta-regexp.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\jakarta-regexp.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/mailer.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\mailer.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/pager-taglib.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\pager-taglib.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/securityfilter.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\securityfilter.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:37 WebappLoader[]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/struts.jar to C:\contexts\sotx\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\lib\struts.jar 2002-10-09 12:16:38 WebappLoader[]: Reloading checks are enabled for this Context 2002-10-09 12:16:38 StandardManager[]: Seeding random number generator class java.security.SecureRandom 2002-10-09 12:16:38 StandardManager[]: Seeding of random number generator has been completed 2002-10-09 12:16:39 ContextConfig[]: Added certificates -> request attribute Valve 2002-10-09 12:16:39 StandardContext[]: Exception starting filter Security Filter org.apache.commons.logging.LogConfigurationException: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.newFactory(LogFactory.java:558) at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getFactory(LogFactory.java:355) at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.getLog(LogFactory.java:409) at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.<init>(Digester.java:310) at org.securityfilter.config.SecurityConfig.loadConfig(SecurityConfig.java:206) at org.securityfilter.filter.SecurityFilter.init(SecurityFilter.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilter Config.java:254) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFil terConfig.java:314) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterCon fig.java:120) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:30 77) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3408) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1123) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:638) 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 sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39 ) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl .java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324) at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243) Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.commons.logging.LogFactory.newFactory(LogFactory.java:543) ... 24 more -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>