Tomcat: LifecycleException when deploying

Question

I just downloaded the Tomcat 7.0.23 package on my Ubuntu 11.10.

I followed the instructions on a Google API website to deploy their example webapp. It basically con

Answer 1

I got stuck and problem solved Don't use the path that is "Map Network Drive", but use the \server\folder structure instead

Answer 2

I got out of memory error with when facing such phenomena:

Caused by: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: PermGen space

after freeing some memory, the problem is solved.

Answer 3

For me the problem was caused by checking the project into an other directory from Git. Choosing the same name as the war file solved the problem.

Answer 4

I done in same way and its working now. Actually web.xml file having wrong url-pattern. you can remove one url-pattern either annotation form servlet or web.xml.It worked for me.

Answer 5

Might be super trivial but worth a check prior to waste some time.

At my case the mysql service was down.

When you have a java app including JPA / Hibernate it is checking the database connection on startup. Just found out by looking into the looks where it had an entity manager error.

Answer 6

Remove the servlet-api.jar from build path and just add it on web-inf lib folder and then export the WAR file..it'll work...cheers..!!!