JBoss/Catalina HTTP500

[aweissman]

I downloaded and unzipped Jboss/Catalina, and started them with 'run_with_catalina.bat' under Windows2000. When I point my webbrowser at port 8080 of my machine, I get the browser error: HTTP Status 500 - No Context configured to process this request.

And get this from JBoss:

[INFO,Default] JBoss-2.4.4 Started in 0m:4s.96
[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)

I don't know what could be causing Catalina to be failing like this, especially when no modifications have been changed, and in the Jboss startup messages it shows that Tomcat services have started fine on 8080 (I am guessing this is the default port).

IIS is not running, nor are any other servers on port 80.

I have looked through every configuration file with the best of my ability, but am unable to find a solution to this.

If you have any ideas: a million thanks in advance,
Alan

[richardguo]

Hi, I have the same problem with you, and post the question yestoday: http://www.jboss.org/modules/bb/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=forums/ to now, no solution is available for me, so I have to use jbooss2.4.3 with tomcat 3.2.3.
Perhaps there is something wrong with the bundle.

[aweissman]

I talked to a friend of mine, he said the problem might be due to the fact that the new bundle does not include any sample apps. In other words, this error is trying to say that there is nothing in the server that can be run. I find this strange because there is no reason that I shouldn't be able to load index.html from Tomcat regarndless of whether JBoss is running or not. I'm going to try downloading the sample apps and see if this solves anything, though if anyone else has any insight to add, that would be great.

Thanks again,
Alan

[huichen]

Hi,
If you got this solutions, please let us know.

[javabettin]

No app gets configured for the root context.

See the following thread:
http://www.jboss.org/modules/bb/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=forums/

[dlhoots]

Okay, I saw the thread, but I didn't see what was useful in it. I tried putting tomcat-test.ear in the deploy directory, but that didn't make any difference. As has been stated before, I downloaded, unzipped and ran with no changes and got the HTTP500 error.

[javabettin]

The tomcat-test.ear has a context root of "jboss". Therefore to access the tomcat-test.ear application you must access http://localhost:8080/jboss.

If you need an application w/ a context root of '/' then create an application.xml that specifies a web module with <context-root>/</context-root>.

--javabettin