Tomcat 7 “SEVERE: A child container failed during start”

Question

Basically, I\'ve written a springMVC application (with a relatively shotgun my way first-timer approach with regards to Spring). The project works fine on Tomc

Answer 1

I solved a similar problem by updating the web.xml declaration to Servlet 4.0 specification as follows (I use Tomcat 9) :

You can check which servlet version Tomcat supports by refering to the chart on Tomcat's which version page.