DO NOT REPLY [Bug 24927] New: - Multiple copies of the same application in the webapps dir causes manager to give NullPointerException

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Multiple copies of the same application in the webapps dir causes manager to give NullPointerException

           Summary: Multiple copies of the same application in the webapps
                    dir causes manager to give NullPointerException
           Product: Tomcat 5
           Version: 5.0.14
          Platform: PC
        OS/Version: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: Normal
          Priority: Other
         Component: Webapps:Manager
        AssignedTo: tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org
        ReportedBy: iainmcgin@dsl.pipex.com


If you make multiple copies of the same webapp within the webapp folder (without
modifying the web.xml file) then this causes the manager webapp to crash. I had
done this by accident when making a backup of an application I was working on,
by doing

cp -R scs scs_backup

within the webapp folder, where scs was the webapp I was working on (not a WAR,
just a bunch of jsps, servlets and classes).

The result is that when tomcat is restarted, and an attempt is made to look at
the manager webapp, it gives a null pointer exception. This is fixed by removing
the copy, so I assume it's an issue to do with the two web.xml files being
identical (or identical enough to cause the manager app problems).

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