The requested resource () is not available.

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I get the error message "The requested resource () is not available." after JForum completes the installation & tries to redirect to the forum home.

I'm running 2.1.6 on Tomcat 5.5.16. I can find no other log error outputs.

Would this be a simple configuration issue or a conflict with 5.5.16?

Thank you -
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There are some issues with Tomcat 5.5.x. We're trying to find out what causes the problem and fix it until version 2.1.7

Rafael
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I have tried installing with 5.5.15, 5.5.16 and also 5.0.28, and I have this problem with all versions, with JForum 2.1.6. Is this version even installable at all? Which versions are recommended in thie combination?

I am using jdk1.5.0_06 on Windows Server 2003.


[originally posted on jforum.net by Bosmon]

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Have now tried with Tomcat 4.1.31, as well as JDK 1.4.2_11. This install just doesn't work! No errors are reported in the logs, just the 404.

Further info: using MySQL Version: 5.0.19-nt - however, no database errors are reported.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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I found the problem. JForum has a bug with respect to non-default servlet context mappings. The servlet runs correctly when used via "auto-context" mode (dropping zip straight into webapps directory) but fails when mapped manually via a tomcat Context declaration in server.xml as follows:


<Context docBase="E:\Antranig\ponder.org\JForum-2.1.6" path="/rsf/forums">
</Context>


The mapping works just long enough to allow the installer to finish, but fails when the app proper starts up.
[originally posted on jforum.net by Bosmon]

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WEll I've tried about 8 OS Java forums now. They are all IMPOSSIBLE to get up and running. I'm beginning to understand the Miscrosoft people,
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Well come on - it is *possible* to get up and running, even if it has a bug! Really you should be pleased there are people prepared to produce OS software, since if it was up to Microsoft you would have to *PAY*... :P
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Bosmon wrote:Well come on - it is *possible* to get up and running, even if it has a bug! Really you should be pleased there are people prepared to produce OS software, since if it was up to Microsoft you would have to *PAY*... :P

I know..sorry. But WHY aint it working ! Why do you release versions that are not working !
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Installer works fine, but this "The requested resource () is not available." is next thing you see. What the hell is it ! Im getting crazy lol !
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OK I give up just followed the manual installation guide as well and of course that diodnt work either. Funny thing is, a couple of month ago I got it to work, donw ask me why. THen deleted it forgot why, downloaded this and now it dont work.
Good working on supplying a java forum btw, sorry it didnt work this time.
I'm not that much in a hurry anyway, just wanted to make it work today. I'm a little bitter I had to waste my day like that since I dont have alot of freetime.
It will prop work next time I try..

CHEERS !!
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Yes - the key is i) do not use Tomcat 5.5.16 (apparently all previous versions are fine - I had success with 5.5.15) and ii) do not use an explicit context mapping (i.e. follow the instructions and just put the zip contents in their own directory inside webapps). Don't worry, I spent 6 hours trying to get this working myself :P Indeed I am similarly short of free time....
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Yes im using tomcat 5.5.16 as well.

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What do you mean "put the zip contents in their own dir" ? I've read that before just dont know what they mean. I've unzipped, and put the folder in webapps
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You were right ir works with tomcat version 5.028.. Thanks alot !
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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It was stated that tomcat 5.5.16 has a bug that prevents many applications of working correctly.

In other words: Do not use Tomcat 5.5.16

Either downgrade the version or wait for 5.5.17

Rafael
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I got this bug on 5.5.12

.Gorynych
[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Although this was a problem introduced by Tomcat, I made a little workaround for it, that will be available on JForum 2.1.7

Rafael
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Do you already have an idee when the version 2.1.7 will be released for download ?

Are can you specifiy the work-around you have done to let it work,
so I could try to do the same on the version 2.1.6 ?

Thanks
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I just installed it with tomcat 5.5.17 beta. That combination seems to work ok
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Great!

Rafael
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Ha ha ha! I was beating my head against the wall on the same bug until I found this helpful thread. I just now tried with Tomcat 5.5.17 beta and now it gets to the main page. Now I can start playing with it.

Here's my setup and what I did:

Java 1.5
Suse Linux
Tomcat 5.5.17 beta
JForum 2.1.6

I just untarred the Tomcat, unzipped JForum, put JForum into the webapps directory, renamed jforum-2..... to simply "forum" and now I can get to the forum at localhost:8080/forum

It's cool!

It is outrageous to me that so much of the Web is being built and run on such broken things as PHP. JForum looks cool. Also the BSD license is great. My biz may make some mods which might not be returned to the source code, but if we do that and make money from it we will contribute bucks instead of code, I promise that. So the BSD license is great for us, and we promise not to be bad about it like the recent news over OpenSSH.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Thank you so much. We all are glad JForum is being useful to you.

Keep in contact!

Rafael
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Rafael Steil wrote:Thank you so much. We all are glad JForum is being useful to you.

Keep in contact!

Rafael

Ok, here's a new JForum site:

http://californiaccw.org

No activity yet, just got it set up today. It's powered by Tomcat 5.5.17beta.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Thanks, added to the list.

ps: if you could just leave a link to jforum.net in the bottom of the page, that would be great! Just a link is good!

Rafael
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Rafael Steil wrote:
ps: if you could just leave a link to jforum.net in the bottom of the page, that would be great! Just a link is good!

I took the link out, because I want to keep the site navigation as simple as possible, but I did put a big link right on the main page (the home page), in the "special thanks" section.

If / when this site starts getting ad revenue, I promise that 10% of it, up to $1,000, will be donated to the JForum developers. After that we might want to retain the JForum developers for consultation, also.

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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Hello all.
It seems to be tomcat 5.5.16 have a new "cool feature". The getQueryString() method returns empty String "" instead of null value when no parameters were supplied in request. here is a small workaround for this problem
in ActionServletRequest class change the

if ((("GET").equals(requestType) && (superRequest.getQueryString() == null)) 
&& requestUri.endsWith(SystemGlobals.getValue(ConfigKeys.SERVLET_EXTENSION))) 

 if ((("GET").equals(requestType) && (superRequest.getQueryString() == null || superRequest.getQueryString().trim().equals("")))  && requestUri.endsWith(SystemGlobals.getValue(ConfigKeys.SERVLET_EXTENSION))) 

[originally posted on jforum.net by Anonymous]

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This is a bug of version 5.5.16, and already fixed in 5.5.17. Anyway, the CVS version has a fix similar to the code you put

Rafael
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Is this bug also in Apache Tomcat/5.0.28? I think so, since my production server, an Apache Tomcat/5.0.28 server, reports the "requested resource () is not available" error as well. Though I did not find the bug on my test platform, which is running apache 5.5. Switching to a newer apache is not so easy though on a production server, so I'll have a look at the work around and report what I found out.
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Hm, that seems to be something different. What URL are you trying to access when you get this error?

Rafael
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