Problem running sample JSP in tomcat 4.1.24

[Monu Sharma]

I am new to Tocat. I have configured it to run at port 17080 on my m/c-this
has been asked during the installation of tomcat.(we can configure the port during the setup/installation)
I'm having 4.1.24 version of it running on Windows 2000 professional m/c with
jdk1.3.1_02.
At the time when we put "http://localhost:17080/index.jsp"
This is a very first error i'm getting. Can someone help me out regarding
this.Can somebody help me out-how to correct this one.

HTTP Status 500 - 
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
----
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: -1 in the jsp file: null
Generated servlet error:
    [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
    [javac] Compiling 1 source file
    [javac] Since fork is true, ignoring compiler setting.
    [javac] C:\Tomcat 4.1\work\Standalone\localhost\_\index_jsp.java:266:
handlePageException(java.lang.Exception) in javax.servlet.jsp.PageContext
cannot be applied to (java.lang.Throwable)
    [javac]       if (pageContext != null)
pageContext.handlePageException(t);
    [javac]                                           ^
    [javac] 1 error
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandle
r.java:130)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:2
93)
at
org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:353)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:370)
at
org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:4
73)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:1
90)
at
org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:295)
at org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:241)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:865)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Application
FilterChain.java:247)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterCh
ain.java:193)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.ja
va:256)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.ja
va:191)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.invoke(StandardContext.java:2415)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:180
)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorDispatcherValve.invoke(ErrorDispatcherValve.
java:171)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:172
)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:641)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java
:174)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline$StandardPipelineValveContext.invok
eNext(StandardPipeline.java:643)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke(StandardPipeline.java:480)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke(ContainerBase.java:995)
at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat4.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:223)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:594)
at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConne
ction(Http11Protocol.java:392)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:565)
at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.jav
a:619)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:484)

Edited by MC to use code tags
[ April 29, 2003: Message edited by: Mike Curwen ]

[Mike Curwen]

This appears to be a glitch in *some* people's installation of Win2k.

http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=17666

The final workaround is at the very bottom of this page... copy tools.jar from your JAVA_HOME/lib directory into Tomcat's lib directory.

I say "some" people's installs, because I run Tomcat 4.1.24 on both Win2k Pro and WinXP Pro with no problems and without this workaround.