Windows 2000 server & Tomcat

[Antoni Unkovich <an...@innova.co.nz>]

Dear Dave,

Greetings from down under (New Zealand).

I've just discovered Tomcat, and am also a newby to webservers in general,
so I'm finding the installation of Tomcat a little difficult.

Anyway, I noticed you have Tomcat running on Win2000.  I have not been able
to get passed the first installation steps like installing the JDK1.3 (or
the JRE1.3  for that matter)!  How did you do it?  It installed fine on my
workstation which is Win2000 professional, but the server which is win2000
server won't run the 16bit installer application!  Have you seen this
before?  Sun's website refers to a similar problem:

   http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q142/2/71.asp

but it's note quite what I'm experiencing.  (gif image of error attached).
The error occurs as soon as the progress bar "Unpacking Java 2 Runtime
Environment" finishes.  I'm logged in as the administrator.


Thanks in advance.

Antoni Unkovich



----- Original Message -----
From: "David Halsted" <ha...@tcimet.net>
To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Friday, November 10, 2000 1:37 PM
Subject: Re: Problems with JSPs in Tomcat3.1


> I'm finding that Tomcat runs JSPs rather nicely (some of the examples are
> still broken, though, I think).  Instead of compiling directly, I just let
> Tomcat compile 'em when they're first requested, but I had to add
JAVA_HOME
> to my environment (Win2000, IIS, in this case) so that Tomcat actually
fired
> up with a proper path to tools.jar in its classpath.
>
> Dave Halsted
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Naga Nunna <na...@lucent.com>
> To: <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
> Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2000 7:28 PM
> Subject: Problems with JSPs in Tomcat3.1
>
>
> >
> > JSPs don't seem to work with Tomcat3.1 and JDK1.3. I get a
> > ClassNotFoundException. Adding tools.jar and rt.jar
> > to my classpath didn't help. Neither did copying and inflating
> > the jar files into the same directory as my jsp file.
> >
> > I tried compiling my jsp with the jspc command in the bin
> > and I got the following error:
> > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
> >         at java.io.File.<init>(Unknown Source)
> >         at org.apache.jasper.JspC.parseFiles(JspC.java:438)
> >         at org.apache.jasper.JspC.main(JspC.java:601)
> >
> > I tried compiling some of the tomcat jsp examples and I got the same
> > error.
> >
> >
> > The tomcat log had the following error:
> > Starting endpoint port="8080"
> > handler="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler"
> > Starting endpoint port="8007"
> > handler="org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler"
> > Context log: path="" Class Not Found in init
> >  java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: Login1.jsp
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveClassLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveClassLoader.j
> ava:450)
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.loader.AdaptiveServletLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveServletLoad
> er.java:141)
> > at
> org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.initServlet(ServletWrapper.java:294)
> > at
>
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:445)
> > at
>
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:597)
> > at
> org.apache.tomcat.servlets.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:257)
> > at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:853)
> > at
>
org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java:503)
> > at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559)
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnection(HttpC
> onnectionHandler.java:160)
> > at
> >
>
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338
> )
> > at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
> >
> > If anybody else experienced this problem and resolved it, I would like
to
> know
> > how.
> >
> > Thanks!
> > N
> >
>