Public bug reported: Tomcat 8.0.32 has a known and corrected bug
https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=58999 which in some cases prevents a webapp from executing. I have encountered this error. The fix will be to place a later version of Tomcat8 into the Ubuntu 16.04 repository. I encountered this error using: ---------------------------- OpenVPMS 1.8.1 (veterinary practice management webapp) MySQL 5.7.13 Open-jdk 1.8.0_91 Tomcat 8.0.32 mysql-connector-java-5.1.39 ---------------------------- The webapp in this case (OpenVPMS) runs under tomcat7 but not under this specific version of Tomcat (8.0.32). Instead, tomcat throws a 404-/openvpms error. The relevant portion of the tomcat log is: Caused by: java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 3 at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:658) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.filter(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:2780) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.loadClass(WebappClassLoaderBase.java:1253) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:411) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClass(ClassLoader.java:357) at java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method) at java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:348) Thank you. ** Affects: ubuntu Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: tomcat8 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1606331 Title: StringIndexOutOfBoundsException - Tomcat8.0.32 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+bug/1606331/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs