Issue installing web application using tomcat6

Question

I have a .war file of a web application. I installed the tomcat6 manager and i deployed the war file using that. But after that i am not able to get it running. I get a FAIL message saying FAIL - Application at context path /apnaPradesh could not be started. apnaPradesh is the deployed war filename.

Also i get the following exception registered in the logs.

18 Jul, 2010 4:34:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: HTMLManager: init: Associated with Deployer 'Catalina:type=Deployer,host=localhost' 18 Jul, 2010 4:34:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: HTMLManager: init: Global resources are available 18 Jul, 2010 4:34:59 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: HTMLManager: start: Starting web application at '/apnaPradesh' 18 Jul, 2010 4:36:02 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Loading Spring root WebApplicationContext 18 Jul, 2010 4:37:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart SEVERE: Exception sending context initialized event to listener instance of class org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/el/Logger at org.apache.myfaces.shared_impl.util.ClassUtils.(ClassUtils.java:41) at org.apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.feedStandardConfig(FacesConfigurator.java:138) at org .apache.myfaces.config.FacesConfigurator.configure(FacesConfigurator.java:115) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.initFaces(StartupServletContextListener.java:64) at org.apache.myfaces.webapp.StartupServletContextListener.contextInitialized(StartupServletContextListener.java:47) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:3972) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4467) at org.apache.catalina.manager.ManagerServlet.start(ManagerServlet.java:1251) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.start(HTMLManagerServlet.java:612) at org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:136) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:617) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290) at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilt er(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191) at org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:558) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127) at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109) at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.java:588) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$Worker.run(JIoEndpoint.java:489) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:636) Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.el.Logger at org .apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1484) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1329) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java:334) ... 25 more 18 Jul, 2010 4:37:01 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Closing Spring root WebApplicationContext

I am beginner. Just got this war file and i am trying to install and check. So please help.

Answer 1

Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.apache.commons.el.Logger

Looks like a missing dependency in the war.

Check the tomcat/webapps/THEWEBAPP/WEB-INF/lib directory for commons-el.jar

Seems like that where the class exists.

Answer 2

Download commons-el.jar from the following url
http://commons.apache.org/el/download_el.cgi

After Unzipping the downloaded file you will find commons-el.jar. Put this into your WEB-INF/lib folder.

Answer 3

You have to first identify the class-paths at the container (Tomcat) and application level. The class may not be IN the directory as a *.class file but in a JAR file.

The paths, conventionally are:

• lib
• webapps/YOUR_APP/WEB-INF/lib
• webapps/YOUR_APP/WEB-INF/classes

If you are using a UNIX-base FS, try in your tomcat home with:

• find . -name "*.jar"

Answer 4

The app is deployed and working now! http://issues.alfresco.com/jira/browse/ETHREEOH-819 link helped me. I just had to paste a copy of commons-el.jar to the app WEB-INF/lib directory.