> On 2025 Dec 12, at 12:02, Mark Foley <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Fri Dec 12 06:54:21 2025 Mark Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On 12/12/2025 05:17, Mark Foley wrote: >> >> <snip/> >> >>> The "source level is 1.5 or greater" is on the web page. Here are the first >>> several lines: >>> >>> HTTP Status 500 - Internal Server Error >>> >>> Type Exception Report >>> >>> Message Unable to compile class for JSP: >>> >>> Description The server encountered an unexpected condition that prevented >>> it from fulfilling the request. >>> >>> Exception >>> >>> org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: >>> >>> An error occurred at line: [17] in the jsp file: >>> [/include/homePageImage.inc] >>> Syntax error, 'for each' statements are only available if source level is >>> 1.5 or greater >> >> OK. We need to see CATALINA_BASE/conf/web.xml >> >> It will be big but better we see the whole thing to be sure. > > Here you go. I've omitted all the comments and the 1,012 <mime-mapping>s. Note > that compilerSourceVM is explicitly set to 11. I didn't do that. It was in the > installed web.xml: > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <web-app xmlns="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee > https://jakarta.ee/xml/ns/jakartaee/web-app_6_0.xsd"; > version="6.0"> > > <request-character-encoding>UTF-8</request-character-encoding> > <response-character-encoding>UTF-8</response-character-encoding> > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>default</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>debug</param-name> > <param-value>0</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>listings</param-name> > <param-value>false</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > <servlet> > <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class> > <init-param> > <param-name>compilerSourceVM</param-name> > <param-value>11</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>fork</param-name> > <param-value>false</param-value> > </init-param> > <init-param> > <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name> > <param-value>false</param-value> > </init-param> > <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup> > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>default</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>*.jsp</url-pattern> > <url-pattern>*.jspx</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > > <session-config> > <session-timeout>30</session-timeout> > </session-config> > > <mime-mapping> > [snip] > </mime-mapping> > > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file> > <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file> > <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > > <security-constraint> > <web-resource-collection> > <web-resource-name>Include files</web-resource-name> > <description>No direct access to include files.</description> > <url-pattern>/include/*</url-pattern> > <http-method>POST</http-method> > <http-method>GET</http-method> > </web-resource-collection> > > <auth-constraint> > <description>No direct browser access to include files.</description> > <role-name>NobodyHasThisRole</role-name> > </auth-constraint> > </security-constraint> > > </web-app> > >> >> Also, the a web application with that error, we need to see WEB-INF/web.xml > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> > <web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/xmlschema-instance"; > xsi:schemalocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee > http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"; > version="3.1" > metadata-complete="true"> > > <env-entry> > <env-entry-name>connurl</env-entry-name> > <env-entry-value>jdbc:mysql://localhost/members?</env-entry-value> > <env-entry-type>java.lang.string</env-entry-type> > </env-entry> > > <env-entry> > <env-entry-name>dbpassword</env-entry-name> > <env-entry-value>obfuscated</env-entry-value> > <env-entry-type>java.lang.string</env-entry-type> > </env-entry> > > <env-entry> > <env-entry-name>webuser</env-entry-name> > <env-entry-value>user</env-entry-value> > <env-entry-type>java.lang.string</env-entry-type> > </env-entry> > > </web-app> > >> >> <snip/> >> >>> i don't know that i have "junk" in the conf files. i don't tend to be >>> inventive >>> with these things myself. here's my whole server.xml file, sans comments. >>> please >>> let me know if you see anything wrong. >> >> <snip/> >> >> >>> <host name="www.horeb-wright3.org" appbase="webapps" >>> unpackwars="true" autodeploy="true" >>> xmlvalidation="false" xmlnamespaceaware="false"> >> >> set autodeploy="false". i think you will be getting double deployment. > > Done, although it doesn't seem to have cut down on the number of log messages > generated in catalina.out. > >> Remove the 2 xml settings. a) the belong on the Context, not the Host >> and b) you are using the defaults so there is no need to include them at >> all. > > Done. > >>> <Alias>horeb-wright3.org</Alias> >>> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" >>> directory="logs/" prefix="horeb_access_log" suffix=".log" timestamp="true"/> >> >> Remove the entire Logger element. It is unsupported and isn't doing >> anything. > > Done. > > None of the above have altered the source level is 1.5 error.
The unchanged number of log entries, coupled with the fact that modifying compilerSourceVM has no apparent effect, makes me wonder if this Tomcat instance is actually using the configuration files you think it is. It wouldn’t be the first time that kind of non-obvious mistake has occurred. - Chuck --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
