Well, my immediate borderline smart-alec response is "Yeah, Tomcat 5.0.x is an alpha product. Don't expect it to work." Politely, I would say that you can't be assured of consistent or even correct behavior from an unfinished product.
However, you're luckier than I am. I can't even get the default index page for 5.0 yet. -= J > -----Original Message----- > From: John Cavacas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, August 13, 2003 11:54 AM > To: Struts Users Mailing List > Subject: Re: [OT] going insane > > > So i gave this another shot today and here's what I've found. > > It seems the problem with deploying struts-blank.war on > Tomcat 5.0.7 are > caused by the <html:base/> struts tag in Welcome.jsp. Once > that tag is > removed, the page compiles just fine and displays. Is there a > particular > reason why this tag would cause this problem? Am I missing something > obvious when moving a Struts 1.1 Servlet 2.3 container based app to a > Struts 1.1 Servlet 2.4 container? > > Thanks, > John > > > > At 06:01 PM 11/08/2003 -0400, you wrote: > >I sure can! > > > >I get the dreaded: > > > >org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP > > > >Followed by: > > > >java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: -1 > > > >That as it turns out is a pretty common issue when it comes > to Tomcat as > >it is detailed here: > > > >http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/faq/misc.html#compile > > > >After going through those fixes, which really don't apply to > my situation > >but anyway, still nothing. > > > >I do tend to be a bit of an idiot at times and miss little > things, but I > >really can't figure it out. I've also tried it on my laptop > and I get the > >same problem. I'm about to try it on one of my linux boxes. > > > >Thanks, > >John > > > > > >At 03:51 PM 11/08/2003 -0700, you wrote: > >>Is an exception generated ?? > >>Can you be more specific about what happens ?? > >> > >>John Cavacas wrote: > >> > >>>Would it be too much trouble for one or more of you kind > souls out there > >>>to try something? > >>> > >>>Install JDK 1.4.2 into <DRIVE>:\Java > >>>Install Tomcat 5.0.7 into <DRIVE>:\Tomcat5 > >>>Set JAVA_HOME to <DRIVE>:\Java > >>> > >>>Start Tomcat 5, copy struts-blank.war from Struts 1.1 final into > >>>"<DRIVE>:\Tomcat5\webapps\", and browse to > http://localhost:8080/struts-blank/ > >>> > >>>Should work right? Is there something i'm missing? I've > been trying for > >>>the past 4 hours to get this to work, but no cigar. Maybe > I should just > >>>go drink beer instead. > >>> > >>>Thanks, > >>>John > >>> > >>> > >>>----------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > >>>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>>For additional commands, e-mail: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >>-- > >> > >>Kevin J Citron > >>Sr. Object Imagineer > >>Optimized Objects, Inc. > >>EL Paso, Texas 79930 > >>(915) 565-5777/566-2403 > >> > >> > >> > >> > >>------------------------------------------------------------ > --------- > >>To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- > >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]