tomcat and davenport

[Paul Bender]

Gary Benson wrote:
> Paul Bender wrote:
> 
>>I have tomcat, apache and mod_jk2 running on the fedora core
>>development branch. All the examples run correctly, so I believe
>>that everything is installed and configured correctly.
>>
>>I have downloaded and installed davenport from
>><http://davenport.sourceforge.net/>. However, tomcat is unable to
>>correctly expand the davenport.war file. When I look at the log, I
>>see the error message:
>>
>>HostConfig[localhost] Exception while expanding web application
>>archive davenport.war
>>
>>Any ideas?
> 
> 
> Try setting ENSURE_WEBAPPS_WRITABLE=yes in /etc/sysconfig/tomcat and
> restarting tomcat.

Thank you. That enabled the davenport.war file to expand. Now, I just 
need to figure out why running davenport generates the error:

java.io.IOException: An unknown error occurred: 
java.lang.NullPointerException
    at smbdav.Davenport.getServer(java.lang.String) (Unknown Source)
    at smbdav.Davenport.service(javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest, 
javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse) (Unknown Source)
    at 
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(javax.servlet.ServletRequest, 
javax.servlet.ServletResponse) (/usr/lib/lib-javax-servlet-2.3.so)
...