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Apache Tomcat fails to start with HTTP 404 error

posted by SpringSource on October 28, 2009 12:10 PM

The cause for an HTTP 404 error in Tomcat.

Tomcat fails to start and return a 404 error. Java stack trace shows:

2005-03-06 13:09:16 WebappLoader[/examples]: Deploying class repositories to work directory /opt/covalent/ers2.4/servers/production/work/Standalone/localhost/examples
2005-03-06 13:09:16 WebappLoader[/examples]: Deploy JAR /WEB-INF/lib/sample.jar to /opt/production/web/app/WEB-INF/lib/sample.jar
2005-03-06 13:09:16 ContextConfig[/examples] Exception processing JAR at resource path /WEB-INF/lib/sample.jar javax.servlet.ServletException:
Exception processing JAR at resource path /WEB-INF/lib/sample.jar
at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScanJar(ContextConfig.java: 930) at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.tldScan(ContextConfig.java: 868) at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.start(ContextConfig.java:647)  at
org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:243) at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:166)  at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.start(StandardContext.java: 3568) at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)  at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.start(StandardHost.java:738)  at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.start(ContainerBase.java:1188)  at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine.start(StandardEngine.java:347)  at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService.start(StandardService.java: 497) at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer.start(StandardServer.java:2190)
at org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:512)  at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:400)  at
org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:180)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)  at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:203)
----- Root Cause ----- java.io.IOException: Permission denied
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1314)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1402)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1439)
at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile$1.run(URLJarFile.java:169)
at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
at sun.net.www.protocol.jar.URLJarFile.retrieve(URLJarFile.java:164)
....

The failure happens in creating temporary file. Check the ownership and permissions on the temporary directory to ensure it has proper permission for Tomcat to create temporary files.

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