When ever you get a chance to install Tomcat freshly on a brand new Cpanel server, jsp fails to work. You might skip to notice a strange error which is normally lost in the debug information displayed in log files.
Watch out this log file /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/logs/catalina.out :
I’m damn sure that you will get to see the following error –
Sep 19, 2008 12:26:46 AM
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig processDefaultWebConfig
SEVERE: Parse error in default web.xml
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: addChild:
Child name ‘httpservlet’ is not unique
at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException
(Digester.java:2719)
To resolve this issue you need to carefully look into default web.xml file which is located at /usr/local/jakarta/tomcat/conf
Few entries are accidentally added twice here. No wonder as its a Cpanel server.
Following are the two servlet entires causing the issue which I have reported here :
httpservlet
org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet
debug 0
2
httpservlets
org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet
debug 0
2
Remove the extra entires and restart tomcat. You’re all good to go ahead with tomcat service on your service.
Do post if you have any further issues.
