[ROL-1948] getRealPath() null not handled

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 5.0
• Fix Version/s: 5.1.0
• Component/s: Installation & Configuration
• Assignee: Roller Unassigned
• Reporter: Jürgen Weber
• Created: 14/Nov/12 12:45
• Updated: 25/Aug/14 18:03
• Resolved: 09/Jul/14 11:41

Description

I tryed to deploy the roller war file by putting a roller.xml into conf/Catalina/localhost
<Context path="/roller" docBase="/roller-weblogger-5.0.1-tomcat/webapp/roller-5.0.1-tomcat"

Roller dies without any log entries, there is only on the console
Nov 14, 2012 1:17:40 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart

in logs/localhost.2012-11-14.log there is
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.roller.weblogger.ui.core.RollerContext.contextInitialized(RollerContext.java:112)

This is because String ctxPath = servletContext.getRealPath("/"); is null
and the next line is
if(!ctxPath.endsWith(File.separator))
which results in NPE

This should be handled.