[opencms-dev] tomcat error: FAIL - Application at context path /opencms could not be started

[David Boyle]

I'm using tomcat 7.0.63 - opencms 10.1 - and java 1.6.0_36-b36 from Sun
Microsystems Inc. on Linux 2.6.32-431.29.2.el6.x86_64

I put the opencms.war file into /webapps on my shared host and tomcat
expands it into a directory - so far so good. But any attempt to load a
page from in there gives a 404 error. Opencms does appear on the tomcat
manager list. But it won't start and when I hit the Start button I get
this error:

FAIL - Application at context path /opencms could not be started

I checked the catalina error log and get numerous copies of this:

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.63
Oct 20, 2015 12:02:03 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployWAR
INFO: Deploying web application archive
/home/twoten/webapps/installtomcat/webapps/opencms.war
Oct 20, 2015 12:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig execute
INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs.
Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that
were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs
during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.
Oct 20, 2015 12:02:16 AM org.apache.tomcat.websocket.server.WsSci onStartup
INFO: JSR 356 WebSocket (Java WebSocket 1.1) support is not available
when running on Java 6. To suppress this message, run Tomcat on Java 7,
remove the WebSocket JARs from $CATALINA_HOME/lib or add the WebSocket
JARs to the tomcat.util.scan.DefaultJarScanner.jarsToSkip property in
$CATALINA_BASE/conf/catalina.properties. Note that the deprecated Tomcat
7 WebSocket API will be available.
Oct 20, 2015 12:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
startInternal
SEVERE: One or more listeners failed to start. Full details will be
found in the appropriate container log file
Oct 20, 2015 12:02:16 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext
startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/opencms] startup failed due to previous errors

I looked at the missing TLDs condition and it seems to be more of a
nuisance than an error. What am I doing wrong? I'm a java newbie so I'm
just poking in the dark. Any help will be greatly appreciated!