[Laszlo-user] Deploy Servlet in Tomcat

[P T Withington]

You have to unpack the .war file, the OL Server can't run directly  
from the .war file.  See http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-3457

On 2007-09-12, at 15:26 EDT, picknick wrote:

> Hello List,
>
> What else could my first posting be about than installing ? On my  
> local machine
> i deployed the ol servlet with the tomcat manager on xampp and it  
> works fine ! i did my first
> tests and now want to switch on an online server ! i am not the  
> administrator of the
> server and i am not very experienced with tomcat and java stuff !
>
> i asked the admin to switch on tomcat and i deployed the servlet  
> with the plesk administration
> tool. so far it works fine, the panel say openlaszlo-4.0.3-servlet  
> ist started, but when i try
> to start copy-of-hello.lzx i get the error:
>
> java.lang.NullPointerException
>    java.io.File.<init>(File.java:194)
>    org.openlaszlo.utils.LZHttpUtils.getRealPath(LZHttpUtils.java:349)
>    org.openlaszlo.servlets.LZServlet.getServletContextName 
> (LZServlet.java:590)
>    org.openlaszlo.servlets.LZServlet.initLPS(LZServlet.java:70)
>    org.openlaszlo.servlets.LZServlet.doGet(LZServlet.java:345)
>    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
>    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)
>
> hm, what can i ask the admin to do ? thank you!
>
> greetings!
>
>