[Geoserver-users] a problem in starting geoserver on FC4 with Tomcat5

Shuo_Liu · May 31, 2006, 4:07pm

Hi,

I just installed geoserver on my linux box with FC4. When I tried to start geoserver by accessing the URL: http://localhost:8080/geoserver/wfs/GetCapabilities, I got the following error:

Type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.NullPointerException

org.vfny.geoserver.wfs.servlets.WFService.isServiceEnabled(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) (Unknown Source)

org.vfny.geoserver.servlets.AbstractService.doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (Unknown Source)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libservletapi5-5.0.30.jar.so)

javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libservletapi5-5.0.30.jar.so)

org.vfny.geoserver.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain) (Unknown Source)

org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.Request, org.apache.catalina.Response, org.apache.catalina.ValveContext) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service(org.apache.coyote.Request, org.apache.coyote.Response) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(java.io.InputStream, java.io.OutputStream) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-http11-5.0.30.jar.so)

org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processConnection(org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpConnection, java.lang.Object) (/usr/lib/libtomcat-http11-5.0.30.jar.so)

org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(java.lang.Object) (/tmp/libtomcat-util-5.0.30.jar.soml6htg.so)

org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run() (/tmp/libtomcat-util-5.0.30.jar.soml6htg.so)

java.lang.Thread.run() (/usr/lib/libgcj.so.6.0.0)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0 logs.

The full stack trace is listed below:

2006-05-30 23:13:13 StandardWrapperValve[WFSGetCapabilities]: Servlet.service() for servlet WFSGetCapabilities threw exception

java.lang.NullPointerException

at org.vfny.geoserver.wfs.servlets.WFService.isServiceEnabled(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest) (Unknown Source)

at org.vfny.geoserver.servlets.AbstractService.doGet(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (Unknown Source)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libservletapi5-5.0.30.jar.so)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libservletapi5-5.0.30.jar.so)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

at org.vfny.geoserver.filters.SetCharacterEncodingFilter.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse, javax.servlet.FilterChain) (Unknown Source)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(org.apache.catalina.Request, org.apache.catalina.Response, org.apache.catalina.ValveContext) (/usr/lib/libcatalina-5.0.30.jar.so)