[opencms-dev] Please help: "Critical error during OpenCms initialization"

[Christian Steinert]

lk schrieb:
> Hi,
>
> I've just finished a site, everything worked well.
> I made a little change in the web.xml page, restarted the context and 
> now I got this error page when I try to see my opencms site:
>
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> HTTP Status 500 -
>
> type Exception report
>
> message
>
> description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented 
> it from fulfilling this request.
>
> exception
>
> org.opencms.main.CmsInitException: Critical error during OpenCms 
> initialization: Unable to read the OpenCms XML configuration.
>     org.opencms.main.OpenCmsCore.getInstance(OpenCmsCore.java:268)
>     org.opencms.main.OpenCmsServlet.doGet(OpenCmsServlet.java:127)
>     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:689)
>     javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
>
> note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache 
> Tomcat/5.5.9 logs.
> Apache Tomcat/5.5.9
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>
> What happened?
There must be trouble with one of the config files of opencms.
check the opencms logs and your opencms xml config files.
try to use one of the backed-up version (which are automatically created 
by opencms, after saving your current configuration)

Christian