org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal SEVERE: Error listenerStart

Question

I am trying to start my web application on Tomcat 7, but whenever I click on the start button, I get this error:

FAIL - Application at context path /Web c

Answer 1

I faced exactly the same issue in a Spring web app. In fact, I had removed spring-security by commenting the config annotation:

// @ImportResource({"/WEB-INF/spring-security.xml"})

but I had forgotten to remove the corresponding filters in web.xml:

 

    springSecurityFilterChain
    org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy



    springSecurityFilterChain
    /*

Commenting filters solved the issue.