Problem with Tomcat 6.0

[swethak]

Hi,

i am first installing the tomcat 5.5 in my hosting server system and created the one folder(like test) in webapps and place all the jsp files.And also created the another folder(like test2) and place all related files in that.

Now i give the url as http://localhost:8080/test/sample.jsp

http://localhost:8080/test1/home.jsp

Both are working fine.

Now i installed tomcat 6.0 and move the all the files in tomcat 5.5 into tomcat 6.0

Then i give the url as http://localhost:8080/test/sample.jsp

And when i give the another url as

http://localhost:8080/test1/home.jsp

it shows the error messages as

 
type Exception report
 
message
 
description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.
 
exception
 
javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory.getJspApplicationContext(Ljavax/servlet/ServletContext;)Ljavax/servlet/jsp/JspApplicationContext;
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:275)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
 
root cause
 
java.lang.AbstractMethodError: javax.servlet.jsp.JspFactory.getJspApplicationContext(Ljavax/servlet/ServletContext;)Ljavax/servlet/jsp/JspApplicationContext;
    org.apache.jsp.my_002dphotos_jsp._jspInit(my_002dphotos_jsp.java:22)
    org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.init(HttpJspBase.java:52)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.getServlet(JspServletWrapper.java:159)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:329)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:342)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:267)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
 
note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 logs.
 

Could you please suggest the problem. Its the urgent. please help to that.

[r035198x]

Most likely there are some offending (to Tomcat 6) jars in your application's WEB-INF/lib directry. What jars do you have there?

[swethak]

Thank you for Reply. in another directory i,e test1 i place WEB-INF folder and it consists only web.xml .I didn't place any jar files..

please suggest that further solution

[r035198x]

Stop tomcat, delete the whole "work" directory (back it up first if you get a bad feeling about this) and then restart the server.

[swethak]

another folder test also there in that webapps files in that folder works fine. the problem is i place the another directory test1 and put the file .It shows above error.It is the hosting server.When i remove that work directory is there any effect to that test directory files.Please suggest

[JosAH]

Tomcat version 6.0.x. implements Servlets 2.5 and JSPs 2.1; version 5.5.x implements the versions 2.4 and 2.0 respectively. If there are compiled JSPs and/or servlets in that directory you can bet that things will go wrong.

kind regards,

Jos

[r035198x]

The work directory is where tomcat compiles the jsp files into. When you delete the work directory and restart tomcat, it will simply recompile all the jsp files again. The work directory is separate from the webapps so your test directory will remain intact. A safer approach then is to open the work directory, find the folder that has the same name as the app you are trying to install and delete that one alone.
When tomcat starts next time it will recompile using the correct specification version.

[swethak]

i made changes like that.But i didn't get.I get the same error.Please suggest the reply how i can resolve my problem

[r035198x]

Some additional information could help then.

1.)When you say "Now i installed tomcat 6.0 and move the all the files in tomcat 5.5 into tomcat 6.0", which files did you move from directory to which directory?
2.)Does your application use any class files or jar files? If so, what are they?
3.) What appears when you just type just http://localhost:8080 in the browser?

[swethak]

1.When i install tomcat 6.0 default we get some directories. I added the directories which are in tomcat5.5 and not in the tomcat 6.

These are commons ,server,shared folders.

2. in my test1 folder WEB-INF i place only web.xml. i didn't include classes and jar files.

3. When i give the url as http://localhost:8080/ like this i get the tomcat home page.

Please suggest the solution

[r035198x]

1.) Is the problem.
You did something very wrong there. All you needed to do was to install your application to the newer version of tomcat. Your application is that folder that you had put into the webapps folder. You should have moved only the test and test2 folders in tomcat 5.5's webapps folder to tomcat 6.0's webapps. As it is now you have pretty much corrupted your installation of tomcat 6.0.
Copy your applications (the test and test2 folders only) to a safe location, delete the whole tomcat 6.0 folder and extract it again from the compressed file that you downloaded.
Now copy your applications (the test and test2 folders only) into
tomcat 6.0's webapps folder and start tomcat.