Ray, Can you include your validatoin.xml and validator-rules.xml files plus copy in the application resources from any files it may be using for messages?
regards, David -----Original Message----- From: Ray [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 5:33 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Cannot load a validator resource from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml' Hi there. I've been fighting with a weird problem for a while now. The app I'm running at home, won't load when I deploy it on my ISPs server. The first problem was that Struts refused to load the struts-config.xml file. I managed to get round it by stripping the DTD definition from the start of struts-config.xml. Now though, I have another problem; Struts won't load the validation files. I get the following error when the application starts up: --------------------------------------------------------------- javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Cannot load a validator resource from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml,/WEB-INF/validation.xml' at org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn.init(ValidatorPlugIn.java:174) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModulePlugIns(ActionServlet.java: 839) at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:332) at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:93 5) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:823) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java: 3427) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.reload(StandardContext.java:2574) at org.apache.catalina.servlets.ManagerServlet.reload(ManagerServlet.java:802) at org.apache.catalina.servlets.HTMLManagerServlet.reload(HTMLManagerServlet.ja va:501) at org.apache.catalina.servlets.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.jav a:151) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application FilterChain.java:247) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.access$000(ApplicationFilter Chain.java:98) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain$1.run(ApplicationFilterChain .java:176) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh ain.java:172) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja va:256) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok 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.ja va:191) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase .java:551) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.valves.CertificatesValve.invoke(CertificatesValve.java:2 46) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2422) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve. java:171) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:163 ) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok 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.java :174) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok 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.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Processor.process(Ajp13Processor.java:457) at org.apache.ajp.tomcat4.Ajp13Processor.run(Ajp13Processor.java:576) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536) ---------------------------------------------------------------- I've tried removing the DTD definitions from validation.xml and validation-rules.xml, and still no joy. Has anyone got any ideas? I'm a bit lost .... I'm running Struts Version 1.2.4 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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]