Tomcat - JSP Samples - JSP examples won't work

[Frank Wilson]

Binary package hint: tomcat5.5

Steps to reproduce:

On Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy with tomcat5.5 installed,

Point your browser to http://localhost:8180/jsp-examples/

Click on execute for any one of the examples.

If this is a bug in the ubuntu package, then you should get an internal server error.

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[Aldous Peñaranda (dous)]

It seems the webapp is missing the jasper-compiler.jar dependency...

[dankurth (dankurth)]

Here is my experience and workaround (simply removing jsp-examples/WEB-INF/tagplugins.xml), log of error etc attached.

[dankurth (dankurth)]

Sorry, uploaded unix version of txt with wrong extension so may be hard to view in browser. Uploading with txt extension. Apologies (first time at this).

[Aldous Peñaranda (dous)]

Hi dankurth,

Tried it and that workaround worked! Thanks for your work! :)

I'm not sure why that file breaks the examples, though. Also, the tomcat5.5 version in edgy is 5.5.17 while in feisty, it's 5.5.20. The existence of this bug on feisty is yet to be verified.

[shrd (shrd)]

I have read the topic here with a solution that work for me

http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=693082&messageID=4028997

enjoy

[shrd (shrd)]

in case http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=693082&messageID=4028997
not work :

open the file "/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/jsp-examples/WEB-INF/tagPlugins.xml"
with admin privileges :

sudo gedit /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/jsp-examples/WEB-INF/tagPlugins.xml

just replace :

org.apache.jasper.tagplugins.jstl

by

org.apache.jasper.tagplugins.jstl.core

[Simon Pang (hksimon)]

In Feisty, tagplugins.xml is not installed by the package. This problem does not occur

[Stephan Rügamer (sruegamer)]

In Gutsy this file is also not installed. So there shouldn't be any problems anymore, I didn't run into a problem testing it in my company.

Setting it to invalid, because it's fixed in feisty and gutsy.

Regards,

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