hello bill,
well i MODIFIED the web.xml in the web-apps ie under beer/web-inf/web.xml
THE ERROR LISTING IS(happens when u start tomcat)
.....
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting
Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/5.0.19
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost start
INFO: XML validation disabled
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.commons.digester.Digester endElement
SEVERE: End event threw exception
java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.beanutils.MethodUtils.invokeMethod(MethodUtils.java:252)
at org.apache.commons.digester.SetNextRule.end(SetNextRule.java:256)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Rule.end(Rule.java:276)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1058)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endNamespaceScope(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfig.java:300)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:253)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:521)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2345)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:594)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> /beer/*.jsp in security constraint
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.addConstraint(StandardContext.java:1787)
... 38 more
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig applicationConfig
SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid <url-pattern> /beer/*.jsp in security constraint
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2540)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:2566)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1061)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endNamespaceScope(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.handleEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.dtd.XMLDTDValidator.endElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.commons.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1548)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.applicationConfig(ContextConfig.java:300)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:641)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:253)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4222)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:832)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1126)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:521)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:519)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2345)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:594)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.start(Bootstrap.java:297)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:398)
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig applicationConfig
SEVERE: Occurred at line 106 column 23
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig start
SEVERE: Marking this application unavailable due to previous error(s)
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Nov 23, 2004 11:34:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context startup failed due to previous errors
thanks