What does your login page do when it's submitted? It sounds like it's calling ServletContext.getRequestDispatcher("index.jsp") which isn't quite legal.
>From the Javadocs for getRequestDispatcher: "The pathname must begin with a "/" and is interpreted as relative to the current context root." I guess WebSphere may not be strictly conformant. -- Tim Moore / Blackboard Inc. / Software Engineer 1899 L Street, NW / 5th Floor / Washington, DC 20036 Phone 202-463-4860 ext. 258 / Fax 202-463-4863 > -----Original Message----- > From: Inocencio Richiez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 9:36 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Path index.jsp does not start with a "/" > > > Hi can someone here please help??? > > I have a WAR file that was succesfully deployed in > WebSphere Application Server. The file now needs to > be deployed in Tomcat apache 4.0. I copied the WAR > file into the webapps folder. When I run the > application, my first page (login page) comes up > great. But once I try to login, I get the following > exception: > > java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Path index.jsp > does not start with a "/" character at > > org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.getRequestDispatch > er(ApplicationContext.java:572) > > > Here is what I've included in the server.xml file: > ..... > <!-- Tomcat Root Context --> > <!-- > <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/> > --> > <Context path="/ICSMonitor" docBase="CWDashboard" > debug="0" > reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> > > <!-- Tomcat Manager Context --> > <Context path="/manager" docBase="manager" debug="0" > privileged="true"/> > > <!-- Tomcat Examples Context > <Context path="/examples" docBase="examples" debug="0" > > reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> > <Logger > className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > prefix="localhost_examples_log." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> > <Ejb name="ejb/EmplRecord" type="Entity" > home="com.wombat.empl.EmployeeRecordHome" > remote="com.wombat.empl.EmployeeRecord"/> > --> > > ..... > > __________________________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]