Help - problem with a fresh install of tomcat and JSP

[Oz Kron]

Hello
I have just install Tomcat 6.0.14 on my pc
Than I just download a "simple" program made in JSP - the one they have on their site, and when trying to run it by doing
http://localhost:8080/sample/hello.jsp

I get this error page, what to do please ?? :

type Exception report
 
message 
 
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
 
exception 
 
org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP: 
 
An error occurred at line: 22 in the generated java file
The method getJspApplicationContext(ServletContext) is undefined for the type JspFactory
 
An error occurred at line: 82 in the generated java file
The method handlePageException(Exception) in the type PageContext is not applicable for the arguments (Throwable)
 
Stacktrace:
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:92)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:330)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.JDTCompiler.generateClass(JDTCompiler.java:423)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:308)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:286)
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:273)
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:566)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:317)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:320)
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:266)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
 

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.14 logs.
 

[Michael Ku]

have you tried going to the Tomcat site and reading their documentation on getting started?
[ October 02, 2007: Message edited by: Michael Ku ]

[Oz Kron]

Yep!
the usually servelt does work!
And so is the "start" page you get after the install
But, the example JSP - not
What can I do to fix it up please ?

[Stefan Evans]

What version of Java are you running with this?
Have you created your own web application?

My favorite reference for getting started:
http://www.coreservlets.com/Apache-Tomcat-Tutorial/

This would seem to be a classpath issue. You're not including old versions of the jsp-api or servlet-api in the classpath (or WEB-INF/lib directory) are you?