i'd appreciate some help here people bacuase this is driving me nuts when my host setup an account and i deploy everything works great even afetr i change tomcat-users.xml and other files everything works swell. but when i touch server.xml and add this block which is supposed to default direct to my site which only holds one ware everything goes nuts : <Host appBase="webapps" name=" mydomain.com" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> <Alias>www.mydomain.com</Alias> <Context path="" docBase="mywebapp" debug="0" reloadable="true"/> <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" prefix=" mydomain.com." suffix=".txt" timestamp="true"/> </Host> cataline.log prints this out :
Nov 4, 2007 8:53:11 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | WARNING: Can't load server.xml from /opt/tomcat5/conf/server.xml INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | Nov 4, 2007 8:53:11 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | WARNING: Can't load server.xml from /opt/tomcat5/conf/server.xml INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | Nov 4, 2007 8:53:11 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | INFO: Server startup in 0 ms INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:295) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:433) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at org.tanukisoftware.wrapper.WrapperStartStopApp.run(WrapperStartStopApp.java:238) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.await(Catalina.java:616) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start (Catalina.java:576) INFO | jvm 1 | 2007/11/04 20:53:11 | ... 12 more and that's it tomcat goes dead even if i stop it put the original server.xmlfile and restart it , doesn't matter it keeps spitting this message no mater what i do ??? what is going on here ? many thanks in advance since i've spent 36 hours allredy trying to understand what happens here
