On Monday 26 September 2005 19:32, David Goodenough wrote: > On Monday 26 September 2005 16:51, David Goodenough wrote: > > I am trying to set up a webdav application on a machine running Tomcat > > 5.5. > > > > The effect I want to create is that anyone can use > > http://<machine>/<app>/<folder> > > to read files, but only those who have logged on should be able to use > > webdav to create, update or delete files from the folder. > > > > I tried to do this by copying the web.xml file from the webdav WEB-INF > > folder into the <app>/WEB-INF directory, and also creating a Context file > > in conf/Catalina/localhost/><app>.xml as I want to authenticate those who > > are having to log on against a database (using JDBCRealm). > > > > But having set all this up I have obviously got something messed up as in > > catalina.out it complains about a NullPointerException, and says the > > problem happened while processing the default web.xml, at line 5 row 56. > > Now I take it that this is actually NOT refering to the default web.xml > > in the conf directory, as it is only this application that is hit (the > > others including the webdav one initialise correctly). I assume it is > > actually refering to the one for this webapp. But what is odd is that > > line 5 is in the middle of a comment, which my xml editor says is quite > > correctly formed. > > > > It is a shame that when putting out such messages the real file name > > that it is processing is not included, and the line of text it is parsing > > is not included. > > > > The other thing that is odd is that the call stack trace suggests that it > > is not the web.xml file it is processing, but rather then context file. > > I assume this out because it talks about functions called:- > > > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.processContextConfig(ContextCon > >fi g.java:778) > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.contextConfig(ContextConfig.jav > >a: 718) > > org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.init(ContextConfig.java:974) > > > > If it is my context file, that does have something to parse at line 5, > > and it reads:- > > > > <Context> > > <Realm classname="org.apache.catalina.realm.JDBCRealm" debug="99" > > driverName="org.postgresql.Driver" > > connectionURL="jdbc:postgresql:authority" connectionName="david" > > connectionPassword="" > > userTable="users" userNameCol="user_name" > > userCredCol="user_pass" userRoleTable="roles" roleNameCol="role_name"> > > </Realm> > > </Context> > > > > and for the life of me I can not see what is wrong with line 5 of that - > > although that is the last line so perhaps it is just an error somewhere > > in the Realm tag. The Postgresql driver is in common/lib, the db exists > > and has those tables and columns in them. > > > > Any ideas? > > > > David > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Well it would seem that my suspicions are correct, the problem is with > the context file, not the web.xml file. If I comment out the Realm in the > context file the problem goes away. I suspect that if it having problems > loading one of the two classes mentioned, JDBCRealm or the JDBC driver. > But I can not tell which. Both are in JARs in the server/lib directory. > Any idea how I debug it. > > David > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Is no-one else using Realms in application contexts? My guess is that I am doing something simple wrong, but for the life of me I can not spot it.
So I guess I should file a bug as Tomcat should not report that the error is in web.xml when it is a context file, and should not trap with a NullPointerException with no explanation. David --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
