2 Replies Latest reply on May 13, 2002 8:58 AM by mseries

    NullPointerException with index.html

    mseries

      I have just installed JBoss-2.4.4_Tomcat-4.0.1 on my Win2000 machine with JDK1.3.1_02 from Sun. The install looked OK and the start up (start_with_catalina) looks OK. When I enter http://merckx:8080/ in my browser I get a http 500 message and the following in the JBoss log

      [17:47:46,129,EmbeddedCatalinaServiceSX] HttpProcessor[8080][4] process.invoke
      java.lang.NullPointerException
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.status(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:280)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.java:180)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
      at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:170)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:564)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:163)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invokeNext(StandardPipeline.java:566)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:472)
      at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:943)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.process(HttpProcessor.java:1011)
      at org.apache.catalina.connector.http.HttpProcessor.run(HttpProcessor.java:1106)
      at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

      Starting Tomcat standalone and requesting the same page works fine..

      Can anyone help? -- Thanks Martin