How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running

2002-11-15 Thread Steven Peterson
I recently upgraded from tomcat 3 to tomcat 4.1.12 and am having trouble debugging new jsp pages as I add them. Whereas tomcat 3 would send the error output of a jsp to the html page (making it easy to identify the problem, fix it, and test it again), tomcat 4 sends the output to the context's

Re: How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running

2002-11-15 Thread Paul Legato
Steven Peterson wrote: what the error was. Is there any way to see the error output of a jsp page without shutting down tomcat either by a) having the output sent to the html stream; or b) having the log file accessible while tomcat is running; or c) . . . ? If you do your development on a

Re: How to see JSP error messages while tomcat is running

2002-11-15 Thread John O'Hara
If you do your development on a Linux or Unix box, you can do b) with tail -f logfile while Tomcat's running and writing to the file. As far as I know, there's no way around the questionable file locking semantics implemented in Windows -Paul If you install Cygwin on a Win32 machine,