JBoss/Tomcat HTTP 500

[aweissman]

Hi

I downloaded the JBoss/Tomcat bundle yesterday, and haven't been able to get Tomcat to process requests when I try to start the servers with 'run_with_catalina' (I Get 'HTTP Status 500 - No Context configured to process this request'). When I just run Catalina with 'catalina' everything runs AOK, but of course without JBoss. Any ideas? I'm trying to get this up and running for a corporate project, and if I can't get this going they're going to go ahead with Weblogic.

Thanks in advance!
Al

[aweissman]

Forgot to include this...


[INFO,Default] JBoss-2.4.4 Started in 0m:4s.957
[INFO,EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] StandardHost[localhost]: MAPPING configuration
error for request URI
[ERROR,EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] HttpProcessor[8080][4] process.invoke
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.status(ErrorDispatche
rValve.java:280)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatche
rValve.java:180)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline
.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.j
ava:170)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline
.java:564)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineVal
ve.java:163)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline
.java:566)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.jav
a:472)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)

at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcesso
r.java:1011)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.ja
va:1106)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

[matthicksj]

I haven't been able to get the root "/" context working yet, but the additional .war applications that I deployed in jBoss worked. It just seems that something may be wrong with the root context. I'm not sure if this applies to your situation, but maybe it will.

[brillpappin]

On Tomcat, the root context is called ROOT.war and if you deploy it it sets itself up as the root context... this doesn't seem to work in jboss though...

[aweissman]

well my .jar's in JBOSS run fine from a java Application, but I can't get any servlets up in Tomcat when I do a run_with_catalina.

I've been trying to run the two separately and still can't get anywhere (can't get past a NamingException)

I have no idea why Tomcat will only respond with HTTP500's after run_with_catalina.

[tessai]

What you can do is go to sourceforge and get version 2.4.3. dont know why 2.4.4 bundle doesnt work but the 2.4.3 bundle works just fine. try it out.

[wombatice]

Heh, it's not a trouble...
cd $CATALINA_HOME/webapp/ROOT
jar cvf ROOT.war *
mv ROOT.war $JBOSS_DIST/deploy/.war

cd $CATALINA_HOME/webapp/examples
jar cvf examples.war *
mv examples.war $JBOSS_DIST/deploy/

etc...

good luck :)

[chewie124]

Hi - finally figured out how to get the JBoss 2.4.4 + Tomcat 4.0.1 working; in addition to creating the ROOT.war and examples.war files above and putting them in the $JBOSS_HOME/deploy directory, you also need to copy the tools.jar file from your $JAVA_HOME/lib directory into the $JBOSS_HOME/lib/ext directory so JBoss/Catalina will be able to compile JSP's.

Also, you have to access these web applications in their URL context's: ie:

http:///ROOT
http:///examples

and then (from what I've seen) everything seems to be working okay.

I haven't figured out yet how to specify a default web-app so if you just go to http:// a web-app will automatically load up.

Hope this helps whoever hasn't figured this out yet.

Cheers,
Rich

[wombatice]

->I haven't figured out yet how to specify a default web-app so if you just go to http:// a web-app will automatically load up.

mv ROOT.war $JBOSS_DIST/deploy/.war
(rename "ROOT.war" to ".war" and move it to your deploy dir).
When see http://:8080

Serg

[lvyuawen]

Thanks very much ,
And more thanks to chewie124 and WombatICE

[huangyufu]

On windows, I can't change ROOT.war to .war. There was not problem when I deployed ROOT.war. But when I deployed examples.war, I got the following messages:

[ERROR,EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] Failed to setup web application ENC
javax.naming.NamingException: ejb-ref: ejb/Account, expected jndi-name in jboss-
web.xml
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.linkEjbRefs(AbstractWebContainer.j
ava:428)
at org.jboss.web.AbstractWebContainer.
.........
.........
.........
at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

But the examples are working well. What is this error message about?

[johnsonn]

To change the ROOT.war to .war in windows you have to use the command prompt:

c:>rename ROOT.war .war

:)

[fmorton]

This was a life saver! Worked great.

[thompmar]

Hi,

I am trying to use this on Mac OSX and have a small problem, their is no tools.jar file. Can I use any other distributions tools.jar file ???

[adrian.brock]

From a post on the dev-list

>On OS X the javac
> compiler is in the
>/System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Classes/clas es.jar

Regards,
Adrian