Solution for Win2K users w/ 4.1.12 starting problems

[Brad Plies <pl...@yahoo.com>]

I just had a run in with the problem that other people
seem to be experiencing, and I think I have solved it.

Problem
-------
After a default installation of Tomcat 4.1.12, after
starting Tomcat, it immediatley shuts down before you
can see any backtrace in stdout (console window), and
there is nothing in /log.

Reason
------
Tomcat 4.1.12 default web.xml includes the examples
webapp even if you did not want it.

Evidence
--------
Using 'catalina debug'

C:\PROGRA~1\APACHE~1\TOMCAT~1.1\bin>catalina debug
Using CATALINA_BASE:   ..
Using CATALINA_HOME:   ..
Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: ..\temp
Using JAVA_HOME:       C:\j2sdk1.4.1
Initializing jdb ...

> run
run org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap start
Set uncaught java.lang.Throwable
Set deferred uncaught java.lang.Throwable
>
VM Started: Oct 1, 2002 4:26:16 PM
org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry loadRegis
try
INFO: Loading registry information
Oct 1, 2002 4:26:16 PM
org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getRegistry
INFO: Creating new Registry instance
Oct 1, 2002 4:26:16 PM
org.apache.commons.modeler.Registry getServer
INFO: Creating MBeanServer
Oct 1, 2002 4:26:17 PM
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on port 80
Starting service Tomcat-Standalone
Apache Tomcat/4.1.12-LE-jdk14
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base
..\webapps\examples does not e
xist or is not a readable directory
        at
org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.
java:193)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:3
397)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)

        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)

        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347
)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:4
97)
        at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:218
9)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:510)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native
Method)
        at
sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.
java:39)
        at
sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAcces
sorImpl.java:25)
        at
java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
        at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)

The application exited


Solution
--------
Delete the example webapp context from /conf/web.xml

Hope this helps!

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