Is it the responsibility of Tomcat, the application running on Tomcat,
or Java to translate or resolve Windows file paths?
If it is Tomcat, does Tomcat 5.0.12 translate or resolve these pathnames
correctly? VQWiki (http://www.croninsolutions.com/veryquickwiki/), a
JSP Wiki engine, when run on Tomcat 5.0.9 on Linux, works as expected.
However, on Tomcat 5.0.12 on Windows XP, VQWiki is unable to find and
save its property file, even though this file exists and is both
readable and writable. VQWiki generates the following report page:

The error had the following
message:C:\Program%20Files\Apache%20Software%20Foundation\Tomcat%205.0\w
ebapps\vqwiki\WEB-INF\classes\vqwiki.properties (The system cannot find
the path specified)

Tomcat's localhost_log reports the following exception:

2003-10-08 10:46:43 Admin: Error in class
vqwiki.servlets.AdministrationServlet
vqwiki.servlets.WikiServletException:
C:\Program%20Files\Apache%20Software%20Foundation\Tomcat%205.0\webapps\v
qwiki\WEB-INF\classes\vqwiki.properties (The system cannot find the path
specified)
Type: -1,
C:\Program%20Files\Apache%20Software%20Foundation\Tomcat%205.0\webapps\v
qwiki\WEB-INF\classes\vqwiki.properties (The system cannot find the path
specified)
 at
vqwiki.servlets.AdministrationServlet.doPost(AdministrationServlet.java:
222)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:763)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:856)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica
tionFilterChain.java:284)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt
erChain.java:204)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.invoke(ApplicationDispatc
her.java:742)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.processRequest(Applicatio
nDispatcher.java:506)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.doForward(ApplicationDisp
atcher.java:443)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationDispatcher.forward(ApplicationDispat
cher.java:359)
 at vqwiki.servlets.VQWikiServlet.dispatch(VQWikiServlet.java:39)
 at vqwiki.servlets.WikiServlet.doPost(WikiServlet.java:375)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:763)
 at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service (HttpServlet.java:856)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(Applica
tionFilterChain.java:284)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilt
erChain.java:204)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValv
e.java:256)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:151)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:5
63)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invokeInternal(StandardCon
textValve.java:245)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValv
e.java:199)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:151)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:5
63)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java
:195)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:151)
 at
org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java
:164)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:149)
 at
org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke (AccessLogValve.java:578
)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:149)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:5
63)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.
java:156)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardValveContext.invokeNext(StandardValveCo
ntext.java:151)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardPipeline.invoke (StandardPipeline.java:5
63)
 at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.invoke (ContainerBase.java:972)
 at
org.apache.coyote.tomcat5.CoyoteAdapter.service (CoyoteAdapter.java:209)
 at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process (Http11Processor.java:67
0)
 at
org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.processC
onnection(Http11Protocol.java:517)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.util.net.TcpWorkerThread.runIt(PoolTcpEndpoint.java:57
5)
 at
org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.ThreadPool$ControlRunnable.run(ThreadPool
.java:666)
 at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)

Does Tomcat not like Windows pathnames? Is it choking on the spaces?

Derek

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