Tomcat startup logs - SEVERE: Error filterStart how to get a stack trace?

Question

When I start Tomcat I get the following error:

Jun 10, 2010 5:17:25 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext start
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Jun 10, 2010          


        

Answer 1

Tomcat does log the stacktrace, but it is not always clear where the log files are, when tomcat is started from an IDE. When I start it from IntelliJ, CATALINA_BASE is set to ${home}/.IntelliJIdea10/system/tomcat/Unnamed_r6-idea, and the log files are in in [CATALINA_BASE]/logs.

To see the logs, either locate the log files, or edit [CATALINA_HOME]/conf/logging.properties to direct tomcat logger output to console. Below I added a second handler to the default tomcat configuration:

 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = INFO
 org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers = 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler, java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler

Now the full stacktrace appears in the IntelliJ output:

 Dec 27, 2011 12:02:45 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext filterStart
 SEVERE: Exception starting filter filterChainProxy
 org.springframework.beans.factory.NoSuchBeanDefinitionException: No bean named 'filterChainProxy' is defined   at
 org.springframework.beans.factory.support.DefaultListableBeanFactory.getBeanDefinition(DefaultListableBeanFactory.java:529)
 . . .