ok, ive restarted it, waited for a minute or more then tried opening the browser and didn't get that problem. but ive put a sleep for a minute for the first instance everytime i restart and this worked.
i don't understand why id have to wait that long. and also why if i restart and launch a browser and refresh a second later there is no problem. it seems to be every other launched browser instance is a fail. e.g. start - launch browser - ok stop/start - launch browser - fail stop/start - launch browser - ok stop/start- launch browser - fail stop/start - launch browser - ok etc. it just happens every other time i restart it on the first attempt to open the browser. thought it might have been firefox. had the same problem with safari. Is it just that Tomcat is taking time to start up? I wouldn't be surprised to get a 503 error if Tomcat isn't ready to handle requests yet. What happens if you start the server, wait for a minute, then launch the browser? -- Len -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/HTTP-Status-503---occurs-once---only-when-i-stop-and-start-server-tf3603240.html#a10078344 Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]