All, I've got a new installation of tomcat5.5.16 but it's having issues starting up and IU can't figure out why. I don't have a webapp deployed, I just have a ROOT.xml file in Catalina/localhost which points at my source. According to the debug it finds the file but it doesn't seem to start the context. I've compared this to my existing setup and it seems all is the same, so I'm a bit stumped. Any thoughts would be very welcome. Thanks, -C- Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 938 ms Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.5.16 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start INFO: XML validation disabled Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig start FINE: HostConfig: Processing START Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor FINE: Deploying configuration descriptor ROOT.xml Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig init FINE: ContextConfig: Initializing Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processContextConfig FINE: Processing context [] configuration file C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16 conf/context.xml Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processContextConfig FINE: Successfully processed context [] configuration file C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16 conf/context.xml Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processContextConfig FINE: Processing context [] configuration file C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16\conf Catalina/localhost/context.xml.default Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processContextConfig FINE: Processing context [] configuration file C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16\conf\Catalina\localhost\ROOT.xml null Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processContextConfig FINE: Successfully processed context [] configuration file C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16\conf\Catalina\localhost\ROOT.xml null log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig). log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly. Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start FINE: ContextConfig: Processing START Apr 3, 2006 5:58:34 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processDefaultWebConfig FINE: Processing context [] web configuration resource file://C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16\conf\web.xml Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig defaultWebConfig FINE: Processed default web.xml C:\apps\Tomcat5_5_16\conf\web.xml 250 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig applicationWebConfig FINE: Parsing application web.xml file at jndi:/localhost/WEB-INF/web.xml Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start FINE: Pipeline Configuration: Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start FINE: org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve/1.0 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start FINE: ====================== Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11BaseProtocol start INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8090 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009 Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/47 config=null Apr 3, 2006 5:58:35 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO: Server startup in 1562 ms