Ryan McDougall wrote: > 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: catalina.out is your friend :) > 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? The exception is being thrown because a call to the validateURLPattern method of org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext failed. Patterns that start with "/" may not contain "*.", and patterns that start with "*." may not contain "/". Why that should be the case I have no idea... Cheers, Gary
