Larry, Thanks for writing. Right now, our environment is mostly a development one, and very few people access our servers. And the problem has also occurred on our development box, which only the programmer tests against. So, we're reasonably sure that the situation you describe is not happening.
Thanks again for helping. David Bank NC CATS Project Manager NC Department of Public Instruction 301 Wilmington StrDavid Bank NC CATS Project Manager Accountability Services - Testing NC Department of Publeet Raleigh, NC 27601 919-807-3796 >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 04/09/02 02:06PM >>> Do you know if a request might be accessing the JSP page while another request is trying to compile the updated version? Also, I assume if it is "not found" through Apache, it is also "not found" accessing Tomcat directly? Cheers, Larry > -----Original Message----- > From: David Bank [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, April 09, 2002 1:56 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Tomcat intermittent failures > > > Good morning, afternoon, evening, or whichever local > timeperiod you are > currently experiencing. I've just joined the list, seeking help on a > rather perplexing Tomcat problem we've been having. All > assistance will > be greatly appreciated. > > Our environment > Windows 2000 Server (sorry) with SP2 (we're moving to Linux, I > promise!) > Apache v1.3.23 > Tomcat v3.3a (running as a NT service) > Sun JDK 1.3.1_02 > > Our problem > Occasionally, especially after editing a JSP file or files, > Tomcat will > suddenly fail to find the .java and .class files that go with a > particular JSP. Looking in the "work" directory reveals that the files > exist, but when we attempt to access that particular JSP thru > Apache, we > get 404 - File Not Found. > > We have had some success in causing this problem to go away > by shutting > down the Apache and Tomcat services, deleting the appropriate > .java and > .class (and .ver) files, restarting the Tomcat and Apache > services, and > hitting Reload on the browser. Sometimes (about 50% of the > time) when we > do this, Tomcat suddenly "finds" the files and the JSP runs, new .java > and .class files are created, and we get the proper output. The > remaining 50% of the time, it falls to one of two > happenstances. Either > (30%) we do the shutdown-services-and-delete routine followed by a > reboot and the problem goes away, or (20%) we keep retrying > on different > clients until the problem suddenly vanishes. > > This problem is intermittent. Sometimes we'll get it with FOO.JSP but > not BAR.JSP. We'll then take a corrective action (described above) and > suddenly we'll get it with BAR.JSP but not FOO.JSP. Both JSP files are > very similar, and there's nothing exotic about our coding. > Sometimes the > problem goes away with some waiting. > > This happens with both IE and Netscape clients, and with clients on > different networks and behind different firewall/proxy > situations, so we > don't think that firewall, proxy or other network architecture issues > are contributing factors. This happens to clients on the same > LAN as the > servers. > > Needless to say, we're quite perplexed, and don't understand what is > going wrong. If anyone has any suggestions or recommendations, please > respond. -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
