Struts 1.1 / Tomcat 5.0.16 - "Servlet Action is not available"

[bryan nelson]

Hello there. I'm trying to create a new application using Struts 1.1 and Tomcat 5.0.16 (SDK 1.4.2_03). I have multiple applications already running on this version of Tomcat, only I keep getting the following error when I startup Tomcat.

HTTP Status 404 - Servlet action is not available
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type Status report
message Servlet action is not available
description The requested resource (Servlet action is not available) is not available.

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where the first part of the stack trace in the PROJECT_log file is:
2004-03-31 14:54:38 StandardContext[/PROJECT]Marking servlet action as unavailable
2004-03-31 14:54:39 StandardContext[/PROJECT]Servlet /PROJECT threw load() exception
javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Parsing error processing resource path
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I've put the PROJECT.xml file in my "..\Tomcat 5.0.6\conf\Catalina\localhost folder which looks like this:
<Context docBase="../PROJECT"
path="/PROJECT" reloadable="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="localhost_PROJECT_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
</Context>
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my web.xml file currently looks like this (i have the .tld def'ns commented out to try to isolate the problem):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

<web-app>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>config</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>validate</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>detail</param-name>
<param-value>2</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>0</load-on-startup>
</servlet>

<!-- Action Servlet Mapping -->
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!-- The Welcome File List -->
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

<!-- tag libs -->
<!--
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/struts-bean-el-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/struts-bean-el.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/html-el-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/struts-html-el.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/logic-el-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/struts-logic-el.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/c-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/struts-template-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/struts-template.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>

<taglib>
<taglib-uri>/struts-tiles-taglib</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/tld/struts-tiles.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
-->
</web-app>
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and my struts-config.xml looks like this (again, i've commented out my form beans, since i don't even have any yet...and the tiles plugin code in the hopes of isolating the problem).
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1" ?>
<!DOCTYPE struts-config PUBLIC
"-//Apache Software Foundation//DTD Struts Configuration 1.1//EN"
"http://jakarta.apache.org/struts/dtds/struts-config_1_1.dtd">

<!-- =======================================================================
This is the Struts configuration file for the PROJECT application.
======================================================================= -->

<struts-config>
<!-- ========== Form Bean Definitions ================================== -->
<!-- <form-beans>
<form-bean name="" type=""/>
</form-beans>
-->
<!-- ========== Global Forward Definitions ============================= -->
<global-forwards>
<forward name="index" path="/index.do" />
</global-forwards>
<!-- ========== Action Mapping Definitions ============================= -->
<action-mappings>
<action path="/index"
forward="web/jsp/menu.jsp" />
</action>
</action-mappings>

<!-- ========== Plug-In Settings ====================================== -->
<!--
<plug-in className="org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin" >
<set-property property="definitions-config" value="/WEB-INF/PROJECT-tiles.xml" />
<set-property property="definitions-debug" value="2" />
<set-property property="definitions-parser-details" value="2" />
<set-property property="definitions-parser-validate" value="true" />
</plug-in>
-->

</struts-config>
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I realize this is a lot of information, but no one else here at my company can figure this out. I would truly appreciate it if anyone would take a stab at this problem.
Thanks in advance,
bryan

[Lasse Koskela]

Where have you put struts.jar? If it's not in WEB-INF/lib, try to remove it from where ever it is and add it into WEB-INF/lib. Just a guess--no guarantees...

[bryan nelson]

it's already in there.
these are the jars i have in my WEB-INF/lib folder:
commons-beanutils.jar
commons-collections.jar
commons-digester.jar
commons-fileupload.jar
commons-lang.jar
commons-logging.jar
commons-validator.jar
PROJECT.jar
jakarta-oro.jar
jstl.jar
standard.jar
struts.jar
struts-el.jar

[bryan nelson]

wow. i feel pretty rough after finding out the answer to this one:
In my struts-config.xml the actionMapping is in correct. I was closing the action tag twice.
It should be either
<action path="/index" forward="web/jsp/menu.jsp" >
</action>
OR
<action path="/index" forward="web/jsp/menu.jsp"
Many thanks to both venur and valeriy who helped solve this problem!!
I hope this helps someone else as well...
bryan

[Ionut Nedelcu]

I'm getting something similar.. When the application starts, the action servlet can't find struts-config.xml
The stack looks like this:

15:04:02,387 ERROR [ActionServlet] Parsing error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
java.net.ConnectException: Connection refused: connect
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.socketConnect(Native Method)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.doConnect(PlainSocketImpl.java:305)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connectToAddress(PlainSocketImpl.java:171)
at java.net.PlainSocketImpl.connect(PlainSocketImpl.java:158)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:426)
at java.net.Socket.connect(Socket.java:376)
....

15:04:02,397 INFO [Engine] StandardWrapper[:action]: Marking servlet action as unavailable
15:04:02,407 ERROR [Engine] StandardContext[]: Servlet threw load() exception
javax.servlet.UnavailableException: Parsing error processing resource path /WEB-INF/struts-config.xml
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.handleConfigException(ActionServlet.java:739)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.parseModuleConfigFile(ActionServlet.java:713)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.initModuleConfig(ActionServlet.java:670)
at org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet.init(ActionServlet.java:329)
at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:256)


This happens on Tomcat 5.0.16 or JBoss 3.2.3 with Tomcat 4.1. The same application works just fine on Orion 2.x