Hi,

I'm attempting to get through the "Getting Started" documentation.  When I 
start the launchpad I get the issue described here:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7552260/apache-sling-exception-when-starting

Subsequently I tried the war.  When I issue the first curl command I get this:
HTTP Status 404 - /content/mynode</h1><HR size="1" noshade="noshade"><p><b>type</b> Status report</p><p><b>message</b> 
<u>/content/mynode</u></p><p><b>description</b> <u>The requested resource is not available......

I looked in the tomcat logs and there's this:
INFO: sling: Setting sling.home=sling/_org.apache.sling.launchpad-6 (servlet 
context path)
Aug 06, 2013 11:21:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
SEVERE: sling: Failed to start Sling in sling/_org.apache.sling.launchpad-6
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Sling Home 
/var/lib/tomcat7/sling/_org.apache.sling.launchpad-6 cannot be created as a 
directory
        at 
org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.shared.Loader.getSlingHomeFile(Loader.java:381)
        at org.apache.sling.launchpad.base.shared.Loader.<init>(Loader.java:67)
        at 
org.apache.sling.launchpad.webapp.SlingServlet$2.<init>(SlingServlet.java:281)
        at 
org.apache.sling.launchpad.webapp.SlingServlet.startSling(SlingServlet.java:281)
        at 
org.apache.sling.launchpad.webapp.SlingServlet.init(SlingServlet.java:111)
        at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1274)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1186)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1081)
        at 
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5033)

Aug 06, 2013 11:21:28 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log


Thoughts?

Thanks,
- Ole

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