Error-Page configuration problem

[Joel Lawhead <jl...@yahoo.com>]

I am using Tomcat 4.1.18 behind Apache 2.0.44 with mod_jk on a Win XP Pro machine.
 
I have been developing a JSP application for several months. The application is close to initial release and I decided to add an error-page directive to web.xml to temporarily mask and notify us of any unexpected lingering exceptions.
 
Whenever I add the following to web.xml I get a "Parse Error" from Tomcat with a list of valid tags for web.xml:
 
 <error-page>
  <exception-type>org.apache.jasper.JasperException</exception-type>
  <location>/error.jsp</location>
 </error-page>  
The location reference "error.jsp" is a very simple valid jsp error page.
 
Strangely enough if I remove the exception-type tag and the location tag Tomcat notifies me that the error-page tag is incomplete and tells me the valid contents of an error-page tag. But when I try to use it properly Tomcat acts as if its never heard of the error-page tag.
 
I have also tried using <error-code>500</error-code> instead of exception-type but that causes the same problem.
 
I've searched the bug database and mailing list and haven't found any mention of this problem.
 
I also tried using a page directive defining an error page but I still received the default exceptions I had planted in a test page. I'd rather use the web.xml way if possible anyway.
 
Any ideas?
 
Thanks,
Joel



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