[CONNECTORS-648] Wars fail to deploy in Tomcat 7

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.1.1
• Fix Version/s: ManifoldCF 1.2
• Labels: Tomcat7
• Assignee: Karl Wright
• Reporter: Jan Høydahl
• Created: 18/Feb/13 00:05
• Updated: 19/Feb/13 12:19
• Resolved: 19/Feb/13 12:19

Description

This is a followup on CONNECTORS-568, which I believe is still not solved.

I deploy mcf-combined-service.war in Tomcat 7.0.35, and I get the error

IllegalArgumentException: taglib definition not consistent with specification version

Then I unpack the WAR and removes the whole <jsp-config> and <taglib>s from it, as adviced in http://wiki.metawerx.net/wiki/RemovingTaglibFromWeb.xml

Restarting, and successful startup, but trying to hit http://localhost:8080/mcf/ brings this error from ./index.jsp line 1

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: 
The absolute uri: http://java.sun.com/jstl/core cannot be resolved 
in either web.xml or the jar files deployed with this application

So then I open the JSPs and see that the taglib refs in adminDefaults.jsp and adminHeaders.jsp refer to http://java.sun.com/jstl/core which is wrong. According to http://stackoverflow.com/tags/jstl/info since JSTL1.1 the path must have /jsp/ in the path. Changing that and restarting brings up the GUI just fine!

Issue Links

• is related to: CONNECTORS-568 The mcf-combined-service war doesn't work with Tomcat 7.0