Apologies, I've put a lot in this email so that hopefully my rescuer won't
have to in theirs...
This is probably such a dumb problem I deserve to be shot, but I'm stuck and
I have no support and I'm desperately trying to migrate one machine in this
office so that we don't have to shell out for more expensive proprietary
lock-in rubbish (here a CRM).
Machine i686, OS RedHat 9...
I'm trying to get Hipergate up and running, for which I need Java (RE and
DK) and Tomcat. I've never set up a web server before and always had a
nightmare with Java - which I like in theory, but find infuriatingly
bloated. Well, I've got J2EE in it's default place /opt/ and Tomcat 5.0.30
in /opt too and everything is now working fine. The Tomcat admin pages come
up okay, I can log in and I can 'run' the example JSP pages. I've even got
Hipergate deployed on Tomcat and can see it's login page. But that's as far
as I go... As soon as I hit login I get error(s) of the form:
HTTP Status 500 -
type Exception report
message
description The server encountered an internal error () that
prevented it from fulfilling this request.
exception
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandle
r.java:97)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:3
46)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:439)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:497)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:476)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:464)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:5
11)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2
95)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
root cause
Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.getCompiler(C
ompilerAdapterFactory.java:105)
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:929)
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:758)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:407)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:497)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:476)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:464)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:5
11)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2
95)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the
Apache Tomcat/5.0.30 logs.
FYI the said stack trace looks like this:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# tail -50
jakarta-tomcat-5/jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30/logs/localhost_log.2005-03-17.txt
2005-03-17 14:38:50 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
attributeAdded('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE', 'theTruth', 'true')
2005-03-17 14:39:13 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
attributeAdded('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE',
'javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.request.charset', 'UTF-8')
2005-03-17 14:40:10
StandardContext[/servlets-examples]InvokerFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig[nam
e=Path Mapped Filter, filterClass=filters.ExampleFilter]): 5
milliseconds
2005-03-17 14:40:14
StandardContext[/servlets-examples]InvokerFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig[nam
e=Path Mapped Filter, filterClass=filters.ExampleFilter]): 7
milliseconds
2005-03-17 14:44:48 StandardContext[/manager]HTMLManager: list:
Listing contexts for virtual host 'localhost'
2005-03-17 14:45:03 StandardWrapperValve[jsp]: Servlet.service() for
servlet jsp threw exception
Unable to find a javac compiler;
com.sun.tools.javac.Main is not on the classpath.
Perhaps JAVA_HOME does not point to the JDK
at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.compilers.CompilerAdapterFactory.getCompiler(C
ompilerAdapterFactory.java:105)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.compile(Javac.java:929)
at
org.apache.tools.ant.taskdefs.Javac.execute(Javac.java:758)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:407)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:497)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:476)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:464)
at
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:5
11)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:2
95)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:236)
at
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:252)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:173)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja
va:214)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContex
t.java:104)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardContext
Valve.java:198)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja
va:152)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContex
t.java:104)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:137
)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContex
t.java:104)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:118
)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContex
t.java:102)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java
:109)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveContex
t.java:104)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:520)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:929)
at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:799)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConne
ction(Http11Protocol.java:705)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:577)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:684)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:534)
2005-03-17 15:10:08 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
sessionDestroyed('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE')
2005-03-17 15:10:08 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
attributeRemoved('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE', 'table',
'[EMAIL PROTECTED]')
2005-03-17 15:10:08 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
attributeRemoved('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE',
'javax.servlet.jsp.jstl.fmt.request.charset', 'UTF-8')
2005-03-17 15:10:08 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener:
attributeRemoved('AA89D380700D2E70151385DD9E96D9EE', 'theTruth', 'true')
It seems to be a system classLoader problem, which (according to:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/class-loader-howto.html
"System - This class loader is normally initialized from the contents of the
CLASSPATH environment variable. All such classes are visible to both Tomcat
internal classes, and to web applications." where: "However, the standard
Tomcat 4 startup scripts ($CATALINA_HOME/bin/catalina.sh or
%CATALINA_HOME%\bin\catalina.bat) totally ignore the contents of the
CLASSPATH environment variable itself" (bizarre?!). Is Tomcat 5 the same?
Besides I'm running from the command:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (in tomcat root)]# ./bin/jsvc
-Djava.endorsed.dirs=./common/endorsed -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8 -cp
./bin/bootstrap.jar -outfile ./logs/catalina.out -errfile
./logs/catalina.err org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap
Running bin/startup.sh crashes my shell (for the same reason as this issue I
think).
I've tried numerous combinations of CLASSPATH(S), PATH(S) and JAVA_HOME
variables in different orders to no avail. I've also updated /etc/profile so
that these are global and persistent.
The variables are currently set at:
PATH=$PATH:/opt/SUNWappserver/bin
JAVA_HOME=/opt/SUNWappserver/jdk
CLASSPATH=/opt/SUNWappserver/jdk (tried lots of others
simulataneously)
LD_ASSUME_KERNEL="2.2.5"
The contents of which are:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# ls -l /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk/
total 88
drwxr-xr-x bin
-rw-r--r-- COPYRIGHT
drwxr-xr-x demo
drwxr-xr-x include
drwxr-xr-x jre
drwxr-xr-x lib
-rw-r--r-- LICENSE
drwxr-xr-x man
-rw-r--r-- README
-rw-r--r-- README.html
-rw-r--r-- THIRDPARTYLICENSEREADME.txt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# ls -l /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk/bin
total 1732
-r-xr-xr-x 66420 appletviewer
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 extcheck
-r-xr-xr-x 1080 HtmlConverter
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 idlj
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 jar
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 jarsigner
-r-xr-xr-x 64940 java
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 javac
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 javadoc
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 javah
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 javap
-r-xr-xr-x 1789 java-rmi.cgi
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 jdb
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 keytool
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 kinit
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 klist
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 ktab
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 native2ascii
-r-xr-xr-x 66380 orbd
-r-xr-xr-x 66420 policytool
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 rmic
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 rmid
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 rmiregistry
-r-xr-xr-x 66156 serialver
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 servertool
-r-xr-xr-x 66188 tnameserv
(how are these all similar sizes?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] opt]# ls -l /opt/SUNWappserver/jdk/lib
total 6324
-rw-r--r-- dt.jar
-rw-r--r-- htmlconverter.jar
-rw-r--r-- ir.idl
-rw-r--r-- orb.idl
-rw-r--r-- tools.jar
Realising that Java isn't JavaScript I've pointed CLASSPATH to
$CATALINA_HOME/common/lib and the like - all that kind of thing. The
contents of two important ones are like:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] jakarta-tomcat-5.0.30]# ls -l common/lib
total 2532
-rw-r--r-- ant.jar
-rw-r--r-- ant-launcher.jar
-rw-r--r-- commons-collections-3.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- commons-dbcp-1.2.1.jar
-rw-r--r-- commons-el.jar
-rw-r--r-- commons-pool-1.2.jar
-rw-r--r-- jasper-compiler.jar
-rw-r--r-- jasper-runtime.jar
-rw-r--r-- jsp-api.jar
-rw-r--r-- naming-common.jar
-rw-r--r-- naming-factory.jar
-rw-r--r-- naming-java.jar
-rw-r--r-- naming-resources.jar
-rw-r--r-- servlet-api.jar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] ((tomcat)/webapps/)hipergate]# ls -l WEB-INF/lib/
total 15560
-rw-rw-rw- beanshell.bsh-2.0b1.jar
-rw-rw-rw- hipergate-2.1.16.jar
-rw-rw-rw- ibm.bsf-2.2.jar
-rw-rw-rw- j2ee.jar
-rw-rw-rw- jaf-1.0.2.jar
-rw-rw-rw- jakarta-oro-2.0.8.jar
-rw-rw-rw- javamail-1.3.2.jar
-rw-rw-rw- jcp.portlet-1.0.jar
-rw-rw-rw- jdbc2_0-stdext.jar
-rw-rw-rw- lucene-1.4-final.jar
-rw-rw-rw- msbase.jar
-rw-rw-rw- mssqlserver.jar
-rw-rw-rw- msutil.jar
-rw-rw-rw- novell.ldap.jar
-rw-rw-rw- oracle10g.jdbc3.jar
-rw-rw-rw- pg74.215.jdbc3.jar
-rw-rw-rw- poi-2.5-final-20040302.jar
-rw-rw-rw- poi-contrib-2.5-final-20040302.jar
-rw-rw-rw- poi-scratchpad-2.5-final-20040302.jar
-rw-rw-rw- sun.jai-1.1.2-clibwrapper_jiio.jar
-rw-rw-rw- sun.jai-1.1.2-jai_codec.jar
-rw-rw-rw- sun.jai-1.1.2-jai_core.jar
-rw-rw-rw- sun.jai-1.1.2-jai_imageio.jar
drwxrwxrwx sun.jai-1.1.2-linux-i386
-rw-rw-rw- sun.jai-1.1.2-mlibwrapper_jai.jar
drwxrwxrwx sun.jai-1.1.2-windows-i386
-rw-rw-rw- xalan.jar
-rw-rw-rw- xercesImpl-2.6-2.jar
-rw-rw-rw- xmlParserAPIs-2.6-2.jar
So I feel I've got javac and jasper covered one way or another. What's
happening!?
Is it not the case that all this type of configuration problem (for which
I've seen a lot of material on the web) are just file location management
issues? Surely this is the sort of problem a 'minor' configuration script
can help everybody with? I'd write it myself if I had the insider knowledge.
Now I've tried explicitly putting every *.jar file in the whole /opt tree
onto CLASSPATH! Now I know I'm missing 'something crucial'.
One last thing... what is it? Tomcat or Catalina? They're both great names,
but in combination it just says: c o n f u s i n g t o u s e r s. OK,
maybe it's just me.
I love all Apache / open source efforts, so please don't see this as a
complaint; it's great work.
Regards,
Lee
(I'll migrate some of this office to open source even if it kills me.)
