From MTiffany71@aol.com Wed Jul 19 01:37:14 2000 Return-Path: Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 85686 invoked from network); 19 Jul 2000 01:37:14 -0000 Received: from imo-d09.mx.aol.com (205.188.157.41) by locus.apache.org with SMTP; 19 Jul 2000 01:37:14 -0000 Received: from MTiffany71@aol.com by imo-d09.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v27.12.) id t.a1.8423003 (5726) for ; Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:36:38 -0400 (EDT) From: MTiffany71@aol.com Message-ID: Date: Tue, 18 Jul 2000 21:36:38 EDT Subject: Internal Servlet Error To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 108 X-Spam-Rating: locus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N Hi all, I'm familiar with JServ, and decided to try out tomcat. The startup and shutdown scripts (seem to) work, and accessing "http://localhost/examples/" works, however, trying to get the JSP pages or servlets to run results in: Error: 500 Location: /examples/servlet/HelloWorldExample Internal Servlet Error: java.lang.NullPointerException at org.apache.tomcat.servlets.InvokerServlet.service(InvokerServlet.java:175) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ServletWrapper.handleRequest(ServletWrapper.java, Compiled Code) at org.apache.tomcat.core.ContextManager.service(ContextManager.java:559) at org.apache.tomcat.service.connector.Ajp12ConnectionHandler.processConnection(A jp12ConnectionHandler.java:156) at org.apache.tomcat.service.TcpConnectionThread.run(SimpleTcpEndpoint.java:338) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479) Given how very little documentation there is for Tomcat, I'm at a loss -- what AM i doing wrong??? All Help Welcome and TIA, MTiffany