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
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[originally posted on jforum.net by rb68626]