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Hi,

I'm using Tomcat 5.0.28 and I started a webapp that was working without problems. I added a few servlets and JSP pages. Then after restarting Tomcat to allow for a new servlet to work, I got this error:



I went into Tomcat Manager and found my application was stopped. I clicked on Start, but keep getting this message:

FAIL - Application at context path /myapp could not be started

What happened? I can start, stop and restart all the examples that came with Tomcat, but not my own. I'm at a loss for what I can do to make things work again.

Any advice would be great!
Jenn
 
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The manager isn't the problem.

Check the Tomcat logs to see what is going wrong with your app at startup.
 
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If I was going to bet, I would say the most likely cause is your web.xml is no longer valid and readable. Messages during startup should say something.

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Using Tomcat 5, there are no messages to be seen at any point... so I guess that means I'll look into the logs and see what they tell me.

I'll post them later this evening if I can't make sense of them, along with my web.xml file.

Thanks guys!
Jenn
 
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Ok I've checked the log and I can't see what the problem is.

Here is my current web.xml file



Here is the simple test servlet I wanted to run, which compiles:



If posting a log will help, please let me know.

Jenn
 
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Originally posted by Jenn Person:
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If posting a log will help, please let me know.



Yes, do that.

Stop Tomcat,
Delete all the logs in the tomcat/logs directory,
Start tomcat,
If your app doesn't come up, post any logs that aren't empty.

This way, you're not posting tons of irrelevant stuff.
 
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Here it is:
 
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Oh wow, you're right Ben. I checked the log and it reported an xml error. I kept looking over the web.xml and couldn't see it.

Nice catch, thank you so much! It works now.

Jenn
 
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I never regretted buying a copy of XML Spy years ago - a quick load of web.xml or server.xml after editing gives me confidence that I have not created a hard to find tyop.

Im sure that these days XML validation is built into lots of IDEs...
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