Hi, I am trying to use a 3rd party web application in the webapps/ROOT folder so my domain name will just be localhost:8080. However for some reason it doesn't work, I get an error status 500 when I try to load up the website. The web application came as a WAR file, let's say MyApp.WAR and when I place it in the webapps folder and have tomcat (version 5.5.2) auto extract it to the default webapps/MyApp it works fine. Any ideas? It's a Java web app and I have JDK 1.5.0_07.
Here is the error I get on the web, they aren't showing up in the tomcat logs: type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception org.apache.jasper.JasperException org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServle tWrapper.java:512) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.ja va:377) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.jav a:161) root cause javax.servlet.ServletException org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.doHandlePageException(PageCont extImpl.java:843) org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.access$1100(PageContextImpl.ja va:65) org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl$12.run(PageContextImpl.java:76 3) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) org.apache.jasper.runtime.PageContextImpl.handlePageException(PageContex tImpl.java:761) org.apache.jsp.Default_jsp._jspService(Default_jsp.java:558) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.ja va:334) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.jav a:161) root cause java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError org.apache.jsp.Default_jsp._jspService(Default_jsp.java:90) org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.ja va:334) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314) org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264) javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.jav a:39) sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessor Impl.java:25) java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:243) java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(Subject.java:517) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:275) org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.jav a:161) note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.5.20 logs. Thanks, John Le