https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=47680
--- Comment #2 from Konstantin Kolinko <knst.koli...@gmail.com> 2009-08-11 20:09:50 PDT --- I think that this is caused by Unix permissions: I think that the user running Tomcat cannot create the following directory: /export/people/tomcat/apache-tomcat-6.0.20/webapps/biorep Note, that File.mkdirs() does not throw an IOException on failures, so I think the following happens inside of ExpandWar#expand(): - if (docBase.exists()) check is false - docBase.mkdir(); call silently fails - parent.mkdirs(); call silently fails - expand(input, docBase, name) fails to open the file for writing and throws the exception By the way, besides ignored mkdir errors, there are other things that are wrong: 2. " Exception fixing docBase: {0}" message with an unfilled placeholder 3. java.lang.NullPointerException in StandardContext.getBasePath(StandardContext.java:4840) apparently caused by null docBase 4. "However I can access the web application fine" phrase -- is the app just running off an unexpanded war ? -- Configure bugmail: https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org