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

This means something is wrong with your application configuration or startup.

There is always information about that in the logs - check logs/catalina.out and figure out what is wrong.