I'm getting "org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart". Some clues?
Solution 1
The clue that helps me to solve my problem was here: Tomcat Severe listenerStart error
As I need to update my libraries some of these were missed from new artifacts and that was the underlying reason for the error.
SOLVED!
Solution 2
What happened in my case was that I spelled the name of my class wrong in the in web.xml
I was not able to figure out what was going on till I found the localhost.log and saw a classnotfound exception...
For some reason the actual error was not in the catalina.out it was under localhost.yyyy-mm-dd.log in the logs folder in your Tomcat directory
David
Updated on November 05, 2020Comments
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I'm developing a kind of complex hello world-spring webapp (since it has just the minimum functionality: one controller and one view (made with thymeleaf), simple database connection (oracle) and simple email sending capabilities).
Now I'm trying to deploy this webapp into tomcat-7 using my IDE (IntelliJ Idea 12.1.3 Ultimate) with not success at all while I'm obtaining from console:
Artifact infoSynth:war exploded: Artifact is being deployed, please wait... org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Context [/synthesizer] startup failed due to previous errors org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory
And from Tomcat's log:
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext listenerStart SEVERE: error configuring application listener of class org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1714) at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1559) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClass(DefaultInstanceManager.java:527) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.loadClassMaybePrivileged(DefaultInstanceManager.java:509) at org.apache.catalina.core.DefaultInstanceManager.newInstance(DefaultInstanceManager.java:137) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.listenerStart(StandardContext.java:4823) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5381) at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901) at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877) at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:633) at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.manageApp(HostConfig.java:1551) 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:597) at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:301) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:762) at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.MBeanFactory.createStandardContext(MBeanFactory.java:622) at org.apache.catalina.mbeans.MBeanFactory.createStandardContext(MBeanFactory.java:569) 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:597) at org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.BaseModelMBean.invoke(BaseModelMBean.java:301) at com.sun.jmx.interceptor.DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.invoke(DefaultMBeanServerInterceptor.java:836) at com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer.invoke(JmxMBeanServer.java:762) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1454) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.access$300(RMIConnectionImpl.java:74) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl$PrivilegedOperation.run(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1295) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.doPrivilegedOperation(RMIConnectionImpl.java:1387) at javax.management.remote.rmi.RMIConnectionImpl.invoke(RMIConnectionImpl.java:818) 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:597) at sun.rmi.server.UnicastServerRef.dispatch(UnicastServerRef.java:303) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport$1.run(Transport.java:159) at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method) at sun.rmi.transport.Transport.serviceCall(Transport.java:155) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport.handleMessages(TCPTransport.java:535) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run0(TCPTransport.java:790) at sun.rmi.transport.tcp.TCPTransport$ConnectionHandler.run(TCPTransport.java:649) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:895) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:918) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)
Before adding the email stuff (taken from here), the webapp just works fine, but when adding email related service and controller everything goes down and the
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart
appears.I'm using Spring 3.1.1, Thymeleaf 2.0.12, I'm NOT using maven and this is my
web.xml
:<!-- Spring --> <context-param> <param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name> <param-value>/WEB-INF/applicationContext.xml</param-value> </context-param> <listener> <listener-class> org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener </listener-class> </listener> <servlet> <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name> <servlet-class> org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet </servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping>
Someone suggests something as basic as char enconding. Do you think that could be a valid reason? Can anyone put me in the right direction? Some further reading? Some advice? Thanks in advance!