Tomcat6.0 startup!! IllegalArgumentException

[palla sridhar]

Hi!
I'm using Tomcat6.0.14 and SysdeoTomcat plugin in Eclipse 3.3.
Some time back, when i ran Tomcat from Eclipse, it worked fine..
I installed Tomcat as a service.

I also have Netbeans6.0 installed, which requires Tomcat to be installed as an archive.

So now,i've two Netbeans instances (6.0 only) in two different locations.
My CATALINA_HOME is the TOMCAT archive home.

I get the following error when i run Tomcat SERVICE from Eclipse.

  Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init
INFO: The Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: [snip]
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init
INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8282
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load
INFO: Initialization processed in 1162 ms
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start
INFO: Starting service Catalina
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.14
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext resourcesStart
SEVERE: Error starting static Resources
java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Document base D:\NetBeansPrj\NB1\build\web does not exist or is not a readable directory
at org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext.setDocBase(FileDirContext.java:141)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.resourcesStart(StandardContext.java:3944)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java:4113)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:791)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:771)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:525)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:626)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptors(HostConfig.java:553)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployApps(HostConfig.java:488)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.start(HostConfig.java:1138)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.lifecycleEvent(HostConfig.java:311)
at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:117)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1053)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:719)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1045)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:443)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java:516)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:710)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:566)
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:288)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:413)
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:12 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error in resourceStart()
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error getConfigured
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Context [/NB1] startup failed due to previous errors
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:13 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext stop
INFO: Container org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/NB1] has not been started
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:14 AM org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin initDefinitionsFactory
INFO: Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:14 AM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:14 AM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:16 AM org.apache.struts.tiles.TilesPlugin initDefinitionsFactory
INFO: Tiles definition factory loaded for module ''.
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:16 AM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validator-rules.xml'
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:16 AM org.apache.struts.validator.ValidatorPlugIn initResources
INFO: Loading validation rules file from '/WEB-INF/validation.xml'
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:17 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:17 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:18 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol start
INFO: Starting Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8282
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:18 AM org.apache.jk.common.ChannelSocket init
INFO: JK: ajp13 listening on /0.0.0.0:8009
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:18 AM org.apache.jk.server.JkMain start
INFO: Jk running ID=0 time=0/62  config=null
Jan 2, 2008 8:39:18 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 5782 ms  

Previosly i used D:\NetBeansPrj as a folder for NetBeans development.
Now i dont have that directory.
Tomcat service server is running fine, even with the IllegalArgumentException.

I checked starting a web-application and that's also running fine..

But can anybody help, why i'm getting this IllegalArgumentException and how can i remove this error on start-up??


[Jesper Young: Edited for readability]
[ January 02, 2008: Message edited by: Jesper Young ]

[Jesper de Jong]

You have a reference to D:\NetBeansPrj somewhere in your Tomcat configuration. Look through the Tomcat configuration files (especially server.xml) and make sure to remove references to that directory.