https://issues.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56665
Bug ID: 56665 Summary: XML schema validation exception for effective web.xml generated for servlet-mapping with empty url-pattern Product: Tomcat 7 Version: 7.0.54 Hardware: PC Status: NEW Severity: normal Priority: P2 Component: Catalina Assignee: dev@tomcat.apache.org Reporter: knst.koli...@gmail.com I am observing this with the current Tomcat 7 (built from revision 1605072) If the following 3 conditions are met: 1) Server is running in "strict compliance" mode 2) There is a servlet that is mapped to context root using URL pattern "" (empty string) - per Servlet 3.0 mrel spec chapter 12.2 Specification of Mappings Then whenever Tomcat tries to compile a JSP page, it fails when trying to validate effective merged web.xml against the schema. WORKAROUND: To work around the issue I disabled XML validation for this specific context, via <Context xmlValidation="false"/> STEPS TO REPRODUCE: 1. Add the following mapping at the end of webapps/examples/WEB-INF/web.xml: [[[ <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>RequestInfoExample</servlet-name> <url-pattern /> </servlet-mapping> ]]] 2. Configure Tomcat in "strict compliance" mode by adding the following line to conf/catalina.properties: org.apache.catalina.STRICT_SERVLET_COMPLIANCE=true 3. Purge the work/ directory to remove compiled JSPs, if there are any. 4. Start Tomcat 5. Access http://localhost:8080/examples/ The "Request Information Example" page is shown. Thus the empty URL mapping is working correctly. 6. Access a JSP page, http://localhost:8080/examples/jsp/jsp2/el/basic-arithmetic.jsp Expected: Some arithmetics demo page Actual: Error 500 HTTP Status 500 - org.apache.jasper.JasperException: XML parsing error on file org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.MergedWebXml: (line 176, col 21) Stack Trace: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: org.apache.jasper.JasperException: XML parsing error on file org.apache.tomcat.util.scan.MergedWebXml: (line 176, col 21) org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspConfig.processWebDotXml(JspConfig.java:230) org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspConfig.init(JspConfig.java:243) org.apache.jasper.compiler.JspConfig.findJspProperty(JspConfig.java:302) org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:114) (...) -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org