[opencms-dev] my site went down due to obscure catalina error

[Achim Westermann]

Hi Christoph,

most likely you have an XML file in the tomcat configuration that has a 
character before

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>

XML files have to start with <?xml... and must not have anything before it.

Hope you fix this quickly and enjoy your holidays.


Kind Regards,
Achim.

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Achim Westermann

Alkacon Software GmbH  - The OpenCms Experts
http://www.alkacon.com - http://www.opencms.org


Christoph P. Kukulies schrieb:
> Before I left office into Christmas vacation our site went down due to
> some obscure catalina parse error. I installed a backup of the tomcat
> conf and bin directory from the day before the error occured the first
> time. I'm not sure whether it is an intrusion of only some other
> weirdness.
> 
> Anyway, I find our site again gone down (looking into it from my holiday
> location at present). 
> 
> Here is an excerpt from the log (catalina_log) where the first error
> occurs. The errors then following are a consequence of this error most
> probably:
> 
> INFO: Starting service Catalina
> 22.12.2008 12:19:33 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start
> INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.10
> 22.12.2008 12:19:33 org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester
> fatalError
> SCHWERWIEGEND: Parse Fatal Error at line 1 column 1: Content is not
> allowed in prolog.
> org.xml.sax.SAXParseException: Content is not allowed in prolog.
>         at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAX
> ParseException(Unknown Source)
>         at
> com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown
> Source)
> 
> Anyone knowing of security problems with Tomcat 6 or having an idea
> which configuration file could be the cuplrit?
> 
> 
> --
> Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kukulies (at) rwth-aachen.de
> 
> 
> 
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