hi i configured IIS exactly the way as said in the Howto doc that comes with the jakarta docs. This was on IIS 5.0 on Win2000 . I am able to access the jsp pages .. Now i have got an application which uses tomcat. When the application is installed and the tomcat run (ie before i run the tomcat i set the classpath to all the jars in my appliaction ) i get the following error 2001-06-26 07:49:56 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler on 8080 2001-06-26 07:49:56 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting Ajp12ConnectionHandler on 8007 2001-06-26 07:49:56 - ThreadPool: Caught exception executing org.apache.tomcat.s ervice.TcpWorkerThread@3b188c41, terminating thread - java.lang.NullPointerExcep tion at java.lang.String.lastIndexOf(String.java(Compiled Code)) at sun.misc.Launcher$AppClassLoader.loadClass(Launcher.java:373) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:257) at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.init(Ajp12 ConnectionHandler.java:92) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.getInitData(PoolTcpEndpoint .java:369) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java :493) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:498) When i try shutting down tomcat on clicking on shutdown.bat in the bin dir the tomcat doesn't seem to shutdown could any1 plz tell me y this occurs and how i could get over it Thanx a load regards riaz __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get personalized email addresses from Yahoo! Mail http://personal.mail.yahoo.com/