On 20/10/2011 23:27, ramsri wrote: > > I have been struggling for a week now getting my application deployed on > Tomcat 7. I am unable to make much progress with it and request your help. I > am not very good with Tomcat. So please bear with me and request details in > your solution. I can see this site being very informative. > > I have Tomcat7 running. My application which was running just fine under > Tomcat5 does not start under Tomcat7. I have modified setclasspath.sh with > all the necessary JARs. That is what I used to do on Tomcat5. Am I not > supposed to mess with this file?
No, despite the name, you're not meant to alter this file. You're meant to put all of the application's JAR files in mywebapp/WEB-INF/lib > There is a servlet-api.jar that I find under > $CATALINA_HOME/lib ... and a few other JAR files, all of which Tomcat will load automatically, because it has its own classloader. > Tomcat itself starts fine and I see the opening page. Even my Axis comes up > ok but not my application. Start over with a fresh download and a clean installation. Do not modify setclasspath.sh. Read all of the following: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/appdev/index.html p > I start Tomcat with ./startup.sh and I do not use Eclipse. The message that > I get is as follows. > > Thanks very much for your help. Glad to provide more info if needed. > > > *************************** >> Oct 20, 2011 3:04:03 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase >> addChildInternal >> SEVERE: ContainerBase.addChild: start: >> org.apache.catalina.LifecycleException: Failed to start component >> [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/mywebapp]] >> >> at >> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:152) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:812) >> >> at >> org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:787) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:607) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectory(HostConfig.java:1055) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDirectories(HostConfig.java:978) >> >> at >> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:472) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1329) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311) >> at >> org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119) >> >> >> *********** > >
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