Help! Starting Apache Tomcat 4.1.31 Fails

[Richard Collins]

Hello.. new to Tomcat and I'm having a problem right out of the gate. Running Windows 2000 Professional and using j2sdk1.4.2_06. I don't seem to get any errors starting up, but when I get to the following lines:
nNull=true
May 20, 2005 12:14:06 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080
May 20, 2005 12:14:07 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 20, 2005 12:14:07 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=20/120 config=C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4
.1\conf\jk2.properties

it just seems to hang.. no splash screen comes up, starting Tomcat Administration fils.. etc.. if I try and enter http://localhost:8080/ in my browser it fails with:

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] Compiling 1 source file



at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)

Help?

[Craig Jackson]

What version of Tomcat are you using?

[Craig Jackson]

Ignore the previous post, I didn't see the version of Tomcat in the subject area.

Have you set the JAVA_HOME, TOMCAT_HOME environment variables correctly?

Do you have enough memory?

[William Brogden]

If you got that message, Tomcat is running.
You might want to look in the log files for further information on why it was unable to compile the index.jsp initial page.
I think Tomcat 4 uses CATLINA_HOME not TOMCAT_HOME
Bill

[Richard Collins]

Craig,
JAVA_HOME was set correctly. I didn't think I needed to have TOMCAT_HOME set under Windows 2000 and so did not have it set. I've added it, but I am getting the same results.. consistently hangs when it gets to the lines:

May 20, 2005 7:53:43 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK2: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
May 20, 2005 7:53:43 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=40/60 config=C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.
1\conf\jk2.properties

I believe I have enough memory, 384 mb in my system to start, and I'm hardly running anything else.

Ideas? I expected to have problems later as I start writing & deploying Jsp's etc.. but not yet!

Thanks..

[Richard Collins]

Log files look fine.. I'll try changing TOMCAT_HOME to CATALINA_HOME and let you guys know what I get..

[Richard Collins]

Nope.. Changing the env var didn't do the trick.. Results are the same. And to clarify.. When Tomcat is started (as Bill pointed out it was) and only seems to be hung.. I check the log files and they look good, as in no errors. Then I enter http://localhost:8080/ in my browser and get the HTTP Status 500 - error, as in my first post. Now if I check the log files I see the compile errors:
2005-05-20 08:45:02 StandardWrapperValve[jsp]: Servlet.service() for servlet jsp threw 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] Compiling 1 source file


at org.apache.jasper.compiler.DefaultErrorHandler.javacError(DefaultErrorHandler.java:85)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.ErrorDispatcher.javacError(ErrorDispatcher.java:248)
at org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateClass(Compiler.java:315)

I'll keep working at it but I'm kind of spinning my wheels now...

Thanks!
Rich

[Richard Collins]

Well.. couldn't waste more time with that.. I've uninstalled this version of Tomcat and I'm now going to try 5.5 and see what happens..
Thanks..

[Craig Jackson]

I am not exactly sure about this, but I believe tomcat 5.5 requires JDK1.5?