Hi, We shouldn't crash with an NPE, regardless, but out of curiosity, are there actually any files in your docBase?
Yes, the structure is like this: WEB-INF classes com/dimins/so-on-and-so-forth lib diveline.jar web.xml cacheroot pages header.jsp status.jsp
For a time, I guessed that it might be caused by the presence of empty directories, so I added 'placeholder.txt' to each empty directory - no good.
I hate to report finding a workaround immediately after reporting a problem, but that's what just happened. I edited the properties of the tomcat windows service (via right-click, properties, in the 'Services' dialog). I changed the 'Log On' setting to run the service as my user, rather than as 'Local System account'. Now I have no errors at all, and Tomcat is working just as I would expect.
The reason I did this was because I was also receiving a strange FileNotFoundException (Access Denied) in an entirely different servlet. It was claiming that it could not read one of the jar files in that servlet's WEB-INF/lib directory. I did not know that there was a way to produce access denied in XP, or how to correctly fix it, but this workaround also fixed that problem.
-jamie
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