Server error

[coling]

Hi,

I am getting a server error using the web client - as follows:

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.handleJspException(JspServletWrapper.java:512)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:389)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

root cause

java.lang.IllegalStateException: No WebApplicationContext found: no ContextLoaderListener registered?
   org.springframework.web.context.support.WebApplicationContextUtils.getRequiredWebApplicationContext(WebApplicationContextUtils.java:84)
   org.apache.jsp.index_jsp._jspService(index_jsp.java:69)
   org.apache.jasper.runtime.HttpJspBase.service(HttpJspBase.java:97)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:334)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:314)
   org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:264)
   javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

I have checked that environment variable JAVA_HOME is pointing to C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0

I have just installed Alfresco 2.0 Community Edition with tomcat.

I did choose C:\Program Files\Alfresco as the home for Alfresco. Is this possibly a cause of the problem?

Thanks

CG

[steve]

Hi,

Installing Alfresco into a directory path with a space in it's name could be causing this issue.
Try alfresco in c:\alfresco to see if that works.

Hope this helps,

Steve

[coling]

Hi Steve,

Actually, with some help I have solved this problem. It turned out that in directory C:\Program Files\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF, file web.xml was missing (and possibly other files as well). The reason for this is unknown, but is possibly that the install was interrupted. In any event, after directory C:\Program Files\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps was manually deleted, this forced it to be redeployed - and the problem disappeared.

So "C:\Program Files\Alfresco" works (with the embedded space - on Windows).

Thanks for your suggestion. It seems, though, that to be robust, the Alfresco Install process should check for this sort of thing. I needed help to discover the missing file(s) - I would never have discovered it on my own. And obviously the Install process did not discover it either. If this happens so easily, others will probably experience this issue too.

[alfrescolove]

Hi Steve,

Actually, with some help I have solved this problem. It turned out that in directory C:\Program Files\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps\alfresco\WEB-INF, file web.xml was missing (and possibly other files as well). The reason for this is unknown, but is possibly that the install was interrupted. In any event, after directory C:\Program Files\Alfresco\tomcat\webapps was manually deleted, this forced it to be redeployed - and the problem disappeared.

Same exact thing just happened to me.  I have no idea why web.xml was not present. I know I did not edit it.  I got the same error though.  Fortunately, as described above, i deleted the \tomcat\webapps\alfresco directory, restarted alfresco, and allowed tomcat (i guess) to unpack alfresco.war thus recreating the alfresco directory with the missing web.xml file.