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From: "Mark Thomas" <ma...@apache.org> To: "Tomcat Users List" <users@tomcat.apache.org> Sent: Tuesday, August 12, 2014 3:11:27 PM Subject: Re: HTTP Status 500 - Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jsp.index_jsp On 12/08/2014 22:52, Dennis Longnecker wrote: > Hello. > Migrating from Tomcat 5.5.4 to Tomcat 8.0.9. Actually installed Tomcat 8.0.9 > on a new server and copied directories from the webappl group from the old > server to the new server and restarted. Everything is working fine except for > this one link which is giving me this error: > > HTTP Status 500 - Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jsp.index_jsp > > Basically all this webappl does is dump the contents of a directory. More > detailed information is: > > > > type Exception report > > message Error instantiating servlet class org.apache.jsp.index_jsp > > description The server encountered an internal error that prevented it from > fulfilling this request. > > exception > javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class > org.apache.jsp.index_jsp There is a bunch of information missing from the stack trace here. > org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:503) > > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) > org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610) > > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:526) > org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1078) > > org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:655) > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:277) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2381) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2370) > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) > > java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > > > root cause > java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jsp.index_jsp > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1324) > > org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1177) > And from here. > org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:503) > > org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) > org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610) > > org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:526) > org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1078) > > org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:655) > > org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:277) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2381) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2370) > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) > > java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) > > org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) > > java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) > Any suggestions on what I can do to track this down? Provide the complete stack trace for starters. Did you copy the work directory? If yes, you'll need to stop Tomcat, completely empty the work directory and start Tomcat again. That might fix the issue. Mark localhost.log has: 12-Aug-2014 15:48:50.236 SEVERE [http-apr-8080-exec-8] org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke Allocate exception for servlet org.apache.jsp.index_jsp java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.jsp.index_jsp at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1324) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1177) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:550) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:531) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1105) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.allocate(StandardWrapper.java:827) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:135) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:106) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:503) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:136) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:79) at org.apache.catalina.valves.AbstractAccessLogValve.invoke(AbstractAccessLogValve.java:610) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:88) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:526) at org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:1078) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:655) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:277) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(AprEndpoint.java:2381) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(AprEndpoint.java:2370) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745) I'm thinking it has something to do with the web.xml in the web-inf file...which looks like: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?> <!-- Copyright 2004 The Apache Software Foundation Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> <web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd" version="2.4"> <display-name>Welcome to Tomcat</display-name> <description> Welcome to Tomcat </description> <!-- JSPC servlet mappings start --> <servlet> <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name> <servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-class> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> <!-- JSPC servlet mappings end --> </web-app> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org