Ok, I've seen this error in a couple of other posts but the solution doesn't work for me. My xml is a little different so I'll post it.
<
servlet>
<servlet-name>SearchServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>.SearchServlet</servlet-class>
<servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>SearchServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SearchServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
And here's the error I get:
exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: Error allocating a servlet instance
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:535)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn.invoke(SingleSignOn.java:417)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:300)
org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:374)
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:743)
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:675)
org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:866)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
root cause
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: IllegalName: /SearchServlet
java.lang.ClassLoader.preDefineClass(ClassLoader.java:476)
java.lang.ClassLoader.defineClass(ClassLoader.java:614)
java.security.SecureClassLoader.defineClass(SecureClassLoader.java:124)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClassInternal(WebappClassLoader.java:1634)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.findClass(WebappClassLoader.java:860)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1307)
org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1189)
java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:117)
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:535)
org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn.invoke(SingleSignOn.java:417)
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:160)
org.apache.jk.server.JkCoyoteHandler.invoke(JkCoyoteHandler.java:300)
org.apache.jk.common.HandlerRequest.invoke(HandlerRequest.java:374)
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.invoke(ChannelSocket.java:743)
org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket.processConnection(ChannelSocket.java:675)
org.apache.jk.common.SocketConnection.runIt(ChannelSocket.java:866)
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool.java:683)
java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:595)
What's really annoying about it is that the app works perfectly well on my computer locally but when I uploaded the files to a web server I get this error. I suspect the versions are different.
Any suggestions?