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February 15, 2017
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Coldfusion 10 error

  • February 15, 2017
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Hi All

I followed this thread:

Coldfusion 10 Case Sensitive URLs?!?

By editing the context.xml file as suggested.  This resulted in the following error:

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException


type Exception report

message java.lang.NullPointerException

description The server encountered an internal error that prevented
it from fulfilling this request.

exception

javax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:129) coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:956) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:450) org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:197) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:625) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 

root cause

java.lang.NullPointerException coldfusion.CfmServlet.init(CfmServlet.java:97) coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:121) coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59) org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:505) org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:103) org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:956) org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:450) org.apache.coyote.ajp.AjpProcessor.process(AjpProcessor.java:197) org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:625) org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:316) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(Unknown Source) java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source) org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source) 

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the
Apache Tomcat/7.0.68 logs.

Unfortunately, reverting the context.xml file to it's original state does not fix this error!  I have ready that a complete reinstall may be required, but I cant think this would be the solution as ive only edited a single file rather than installing an update etc!

Any suggestions?

cheers

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