On Tue, 2005-12-13 at 12:04 +0900, Ryan McDougall wrote: > My question is how can I tease out enough information to discover what > the problem is? Ive just discovered /var/log/tomcat5/catalina.out (of course sitting right there in front of me the whole time! grr), which actually has error messages worth reading: 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostDeployer start(java.lang.String) INFO: standardHost.start /myservlet 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester endElement(java.lang.String, java.lang.String, java.lang.String) SEVERE: End event threw exception 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig applicationConfig() SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig applicationConfig() SEVERE: Occurred at line 15 column 19 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start() SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s) 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start() SEVERE: Error getConfigured 13-Dec-05 12:25:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start() SEVERE: Context startup failed due to previous errors Which shows the culprit is > <url-pattern>/myservlet/*.do</url-pattern> which changed to the less interesting <url-pattern>/myservlet</url-pattern> will allow it to deploy. For the benefit of those that google after me, does anyone want to explain why the first patten wont work, or offer up any further debugging tips? Cheers, Ryan
