Thank you Jon for being THE one to reply. Actually, my problem was due to a silly mistake on my part. Instead of defining JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.1_02, I set JAVA_HOME=C:\j2sdk1.4.1_02\bin. Resetting it correctly, even followed by a PC reboot, didn't correct the situation. I had to uninstall and reinstall Tomcat before http://localhost:8080 successfully displayed Tomcat's index.jsp. Thanks again.
Chris. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jon Wingfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tomcat Users List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2003 12:25 AM Subject: Re: Running Tomcat on Win XP > This is a wild stab in the dark but here goes. How much RAM have you got > in your XP box? Is the compilation of the jsp/jsps by ant running out of > memory? (I think the compilation is out-of-process, but i may be wrong.) > If you think you have enough memory then play around with the -Xms and > -Xmx settings for the jvm tomcat is running in. You can do this by > setting either JAVA_OPTS or CATALINA_OPTS environment variables. > > BTW, our production system is linux but our developments machines are a > mixture of linux, windows 2000 and XP. > > HTH, > Jon > > Chris Dodunski wrote: > > >An observation that may be of relevance here is that the example Servlets > >are working fine. Problem only apparent when attempting to view a JSP - > >like the default Tomcat page. Any clues anyone? > > > >Thanks, > > > >Chris. > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Chris Dodunski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Sent: Friday, March 14, 2003 10:53 PM > >Subject: Running Tomcat on Win XP > > > > > >Hi all, > > > >I was successful in installing and running Tomcat on our Linux web server. > >Today I downloaded the Windows version of Tomcat for my PC. Having > >installed j2sdk1.4.1_02 and j3sdkee1.3.1, set environment variables > >JAVA_HOME and J2EE_HOME, I then installed Tomcat 4.1.18. However, upon > >starting Tomcat, I get the following error when directing my browser to > >http://localhost:8080... > > > >(Please, what else needs doing?) > > > >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 > > > >An error occurred at line: -1 in the jsp file: null > > > >Generated servlet error: > > [javac] Compiling 1 source file > > > > > > > >at > >org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandl e > >r.java:130) > >at > >org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java: 2 > >93) > >at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:340) > >at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:352) > >at > >org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java: 4 > >74) > >at > >org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java: 1 > >84) > >at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295) > >at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241) > >at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applicatio n > >FilterChain.java:247) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterC h > >ain.java:193) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.j a > >va:260) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) > >at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.j a > >va:191) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) > >at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:18 0 > >) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve . > >java:170) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:17 2 > >) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) > >at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.jav a > >:174) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invo k > >eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) > >at > >org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) > >at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) > >at org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223) > >at > >org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:432) > >at > >org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConn e > >ction(Http11Protocol.java:386) > >at > >org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:534) > >at > >org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.ja v > >a:530) > >at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------------- - > >---- > > > >Apache Tomcat/4.1.18 > > > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >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] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]