[opencms-dev] Vague error message: "OpenCms not properly configured!"

[Graham Leggett]

Hi,

Deciding to soldier on with opencms in the hope that the strange 
failures during the install process might show themselves up as 
meaningful errors, I clicked on "finish" to access the website's main URL.

This brought up a page showing the following exception:

2005-02-13 07:24:35 StandardWrapperValve[OpenCmsServlet]: 
Servlet.service() for
servlet OpenCmsServlet threw exception
javax.servlet.ServletException: OpenCms not properly configured!
         at org.opencms.main.OpenCmsServlet.doGet(OpenCmsServlet.java:96)
         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
         at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)

Thinking that maybe the real exception was hidden inside localhost_log_* 
for security reasons, I checked that logfile, to find the exact same 
exception and no further details.

At this point all I know is that CMS is not properly configured, 
something I kinda figure out for myself through the failures encountered 
during the configure process. I do not however know whether the issue 
opencms is complaining about is related to a missing file, a missing 
setting, a missing database connection, no clues are left for the end user.

Is there a flag inside the Opencms config files somewhere called "enable 
human readable explanatory error messages"?

Regards,
Graham
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