Error running Tomcat

[Ajit Sadasivan <as...@parabolicsoftware.com>]

Hi,

   I have jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4 installed in win2k machine
with all the soap-2_2,jaf-1.0.1,j2sdk1.4.0 and java mail-1.2.
I have the latest apache server also installed.But when
I try to run tomcat by :

C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\bin>tomcat run

   its giving the following error:

C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\bin>tomcat run
Including all jars in C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\lib in your CLASSPATH.
Using CLASSPATH:
C:\Ajit\SMS\SampleCode\6101\Chapter03\HelloWorld\WEB-INF\classe
s;c:\soap-2_2\lib\soap.jar;c:\soap-2_2\lib\activation.jar;c:\soap-2_2\lib\ma
il.j
ar;c:\soap-2_2\lib\xerces.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\classes;C:\jakarta-tom
cat-
3.2.4\lib\ant.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\lib\crimson.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-
3.2.
4\lib\jasper.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\lib\jaxp.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.
4\li
b\servlet.jar;C:\jakarta-tomcat-3.2.4\lib\webserver.jar;C:\xerces-1_4_4\xerc
es.j
ar.;C:\soap-2_2\lib\xerces.jar;C:\soap-2_2;C:\j2sdk1.4.0\src.zip;C:\j2sdk1.4
.0\j
re\lib\rt.jar;C:\j2sdk1.4.0\lib\tools.jar;C:\soap-2_2\lib\soap.jar;C:\soap-2
_2\l
ib\xercesSamples.jar;C:\xml4j-4_0_1\xmlParserAPIs.jar;C:\xml4j-4_0_1\xercesI
mpl.
jar;C:\xml4j-4_0_1\xercesSamples.jar;C:\javamail-1.2\mail.jar;C:\jaf-1.0.1\a
ctiv
ation.jar;C:\j2sdk1.4.0\ju;C:\axis-1_0\lib\axis.jar;../..;C:\j2sdk1.4.0\lib\
tool
s.jar

2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /examples )
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /admin )
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /soap1 )
Starting tomcat. Check logs/tomcat.log for error messages
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /axis )
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /HelloWorld )
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx(  )
2002-07-30 21:26:26 - ContextManager: Adding context Ctx( /test )
Error generating automatic apache configuration
java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.task.ApacheConfig.execute(ApacheConfig.java:226)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.generateServerConfig(Tomcat.java:222
)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:200)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:240)
Error generating automatic Netscape configuration
java.lang.NullPointerException

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289)
        at org.apache.tomcat.task.NSConfig.execute(NSConfig.java:136)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.generateServerConfig(Tomcat.java:234
)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.execute(Tomcat.java:200)
        at org.apache.tomcat.startup.Tomcat.main(Tomcat.java:240)
2002-07-30 21:26:33 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting HttpConnectionHandler on
8080
2002-07-30 21:26:33 - PoolTcpConnector: Starting Ajp12ConnectionHandler on
8007
2002-07-30 21:27:06 - Ctx(  ): 404 R(  + /SOAP/ + null) null
2002-07-30 21:27:16 - Ctx( /soap1 ): Exception in: R( /soap1 + / + null) -
java.
lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.tomcat.util.FileUtil.isAbsolute(FileUtil.java:289)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.getAbsolutePath(Context.java:257)
        at org.apache.tomcat.core.Context.getRealPath(Context.java:794)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.request.StaticInterceptor.requestMap(StaticIntercep
tor.java:196)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.processRequest(ContextManager.j
ava:828)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.internalService(ContextManager.
java:780)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:752
)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler.processConnectio
n(HttpConnectionHandler.java:213)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:
416)
        at
org.apache.tomcat.util.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java
:501)
        at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:536)


Anmy idea why its coming ? How to fix it ?

With Regards
Ajit.S