Try using forward slashes for the directory delimiter? <Context path="" docbase="c:/Projects/calendar/htdocs" debug="0"/>
Mike Jonathan Zhang wrote:
hi Guys,
I'm running tomcat 4.x on windows xp and I'm trying to add a context to
<Context path="" docbase="c:\Projects\calendar\htdocs" debug="0"/>
I get the following exception:
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.12
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.io.File.<init>(File.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.getBasePath(StandardContext.
java:3833)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3
397)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347
)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:4
97)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:218
9)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:510)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
thanks for the help
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