[Geoserver-users] troubleshooting deploying geoserver.war to tomcat

[mrenoch <mr...@ph...>]

Hi,

I am trying to deploy the geoserver 1.7.2 war to our production tomcat
server (which I don't have full administrative access to).

I have defined the context as follows below, though I am not 100% certain
that the data directory is being found.

Also, I copied the data_dir over from the full package download - I wasn't
really sure how to set this up for a war deployment (I found some
documentation on this, but it was a bit unclear).

When I start up tomcat (tomcat 5.5.25) I get a null pointer exception - see
http://pastebin.com/m5c21c106 - logs are not being written to geoserver.log,
just stdout.

I am not really sure how to begin troubleshooting this. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
/Jonah

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<!-- geoserver context  -->
<Context
docBase="/www/apps/tomcat5/wwwappdev/ccnmtl/geoserver/geoserver.war"
         debug="0"
         crossContext="true"
         reloadable="false">

   <Environment name="GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR" type="java.lang.String"
value="/www/apps/tomcat5/wwwappdev/ccnmtl/geoserver/data_dir"
override="true" />

</Context>

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2009-03-06 16:18:18,787 ERROR [main]
org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoader - Context initialization
failed
org.springframework.beans.factory.BeanCreationException: Error creating bean
with name 'geoServerLoader' defined in URL
[jar:file:/usr/var/tomcat/ccnmtl5/work/wwwappdev/localhost/ccnmtl_geoserver/WEB-INF/lib/main-1.7.2.jar!/applicationContext.xml]:
Initialization of bean failed; nested exception is
java.lang.NullPointerException
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