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Deploying Jforum in weblogic 8.1

 
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One quick thought.. are you running this directly from a war file? jForum (and, it think, Freemarker) requires a physical webapp directory.

I would also guess that something is very non-standard about your Weblogic setup. The Null value is probably the result of a "getRealPath" call. I beleive that the standards say that even if you're running from a war, you should get URL Resource path for this call.
[originally posted on jforum.net by monroe]
 
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I can able to deploy jfourm in weblogic 8.1 but I was not able to run the application some exception is thrown in the console

Error is shown below
Please help me


log4j:ERROR Could not open [null/WEB-INF/log4j.xml].
java.io.FileNotFoundException: null\WEB-INF\log4j.xml
(The system cannot find th
e path specified)
at java.io.FileInputStream.open(Native Method)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:106)
at java.io.FileInputStream.<init>(FileInputStream.java:66)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.doConfigure(DOMConfigurator.java
:583)
at org.apache.log4j.xml.DOMConfigurator.configure(DOMConfigurator.java:6
87)
at net.jforum.JForumBaseServlet.init(JForumBaseServlet.java:104)
at net.jforum.JForum.init(JForum.java:94)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInitAction.run(Servl
etStubImpl.java:1028)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate
dSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:
121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:904)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStub
Impl.java:883)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubI
mpl.java:822)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.
java:535)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:373)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.ja
va:27)
at net.jforum.util.legacy.clickstream.ClickstreamFilter.doFilter(Clickst
reamFilter.java:59)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.ja
va:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationActio
n.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6724)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate
dSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:
121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppSe
rvletContext.java:3764)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestIm
pl.java:2644)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
<Feb 6, 2009 3:48:42 PM IST> <Error> <HTTP> <BEA-101017> <[ServletContext(id=846
0967,name=jforum,context-path=/jforum)] Root cause of ServletException.
net.jforum.exceptions.ForumStartupException: Error while starting JForum
at java.util.Hashtable.put(Hashtable.java:393)
at net.jforum.util.preferences.SystemGlobals.buildSystem(SystemGlobals.j
ava:116)
at net.jforum.util.preferences.SystemGlobals.initGlobals(SystemGlobals.j
ava:104)
at net.jforum.ConfigLoader.startSystemglobals(ConfigLoader.java:90)
at net.jforum.JForumBaseServlet.init(JForumBaseServlet.java:108)
at net.jforum.JForum.init(JForum.java:94)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl$ServletInitAction.run(Servl
etStubImpl.java:1028)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate
dSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:
121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:904)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.createInstances(ServletStub
Impl.java:883)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.prepareServlet(ServletStubI
mpl.java:822)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.getServlet(ServletStubImpl.
java:535)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletStubImpl.invokeServlet(ServletStubIm
pl.java:373)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.TailFilter.doFilter(TailFilter.java:28)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.ja
va:27)
at net.jforum.util.legacy.clickstream.ClickstreamFilter.doFilter(Clickst
reamFilter.java:59)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.FilterChainImpl.doFilter(FilterChainImpl.ja
va:27)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext$ServletInvocationActio
n.run(WebAppServletContext.java:6724)
at weblogic.security.acl.internal.AuthenticatedSubject.doAs(Authenticate
dSubject.java:321)
at weblogic.security.service.SecurityManager.runAs(SecurityManager.java:
121)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.WebAppServletContext.invokeServlet(WebAppSe
rvletContext.java:3764)
at weblogic.servlet.internal.ServletRequestImpl.execute(ServletRequestIm
pl.java:2644)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.execute(ExecuteThread.java:219)
at weblogic.kernel.ExecuteThread.run(ExecuteThread.java:178)
Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
... 25 more
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monroe wrote:jForum (and, it think, Freemarker) requires a physical webapp directory.


In FreeMarker, this depends entirely on what template loader you use. I.e. WebappTemplateLoader uses ServletContext.getResource(), so it works from WAR files too.

(Actually, it will first try getRealPath() to bypass servlet container resource caches, but if it gets null from it, it'll fall back to using ServletContext.getResource())
[originally posted on jforum.net by aszegedi]
 
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