Moved from a working webapp under FreeBSD, Tomcat 3.2, apache 1.3.12 to Windows 2000, tomcat 3.2.3 and apache 1.3.17.
After getting around the tomcat/apache configuration quirks I finally could fire up my webapp and it showed up partially with classes not recompiled. But since I had some hard wird unix paths in my servlets I had to recompile and after doing this alread the central startup servlet bombs. I had a -deprecation warning during compilation (compiled using jdk1.3.1_01) Can anyone read something out of this picture: In browser: Error: 500 Location: /servlets/servlet/Hello Internal Servlet Error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveClassLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveClassLoader.java:471) at org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveServletLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveServletLoader.java:174) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.loadServlet(ServletWrapper.java:265) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.init(ServletWrapper.java:289) at org.apache.tomcat.core.Handler.service(Handler.java:254) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.service(ServletWrapper.java:372) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.java:812) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:758) at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(Ajp12ConnectionHandler.java:166) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:416) at org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:501) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484) jvm.stdout: Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages cannot load servlet name: jsp: C:\Programme\Apache_Group\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat- 3.2.3\webapps\servlets\WEB-INF\classes is not a directory or zip/jar file or if it's a zip/jar file then it is corrupted. Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages cannot load servlet name: jsp: C:\Programme\Apache_Group\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat- 3.2.3\webapps\servlets\WEB-INF\classes is not a directory or zip/jar file or if it's a zip/jar file then it is corrupted. Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages cannot load servlet name: jsp: C:\Programme\Apache_Group\jakarta\jakarta-tomcat- 3.2.3\webapps\servlets\WEB-INF\classes is not a directory or zip/jar file or if it's a zip/jar file then it is corrupted. There is no tomcat.log BTW. -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>