NT service start of weblogic doesn't work (command line start works)...

Question

Hi,
We have WL 6 running on NT 4, and the server installed as a NT service.
We have some servlets sitting in the DefaultWebApp directory, but when we
start the WebLogic NT service we get an ERROR 400:
From RFC 2068 Hypertext Transfer Protocol -- HTTP/1.1:
10.4.5 400 Bad Request
The request could not be understood by the server due to malformed syntax.
The client SHOULD NOT repeat the request without modifications.
The log states that the default context did not load properly. Maybe about
10% of the time, everything works fine
and we can access our servlets. When the error happens, we can't even
access the console, it still gives the same error 400. Interestingly, when
I start weblogic through DOS, it works 100% of the time with no error 400!
I installed SP1 and I still get the same behavior. I tried resetting the
config.xml....but sometimes I get the reverse behavior..where the service
works all the time and the DOS method doesn't work. Could there be
something with the servlets (they're pretty straight)? Some other parameter
or setting that I'm missing? Or is this just a bug?
Thanks for any help,
Ven

Answer 1

This is a known bug in the Windows native convenience programs.
If you start the server with the startWebLogic.cmd script or
from your own Java command line you'll get farther.
WebLogic Server 5.1.0 isn't certified yet on the 1.3 JDK because
1.3 had not been released in production form at the time of
the WebLogic Server 5.1.0 release. Our experience is that it
works well enough to do development work. Certification (and
support for deployment) is targeted for an upcoming service pack.
Chuck Karish
Tsung-Wen Tsai wrote:
>
Does WLS 5.1 works with jdk or jre 1.3?
I looked at jdk and jre 1.3 directory and I can't find javai.dll file,
although javai DO come with jdk 1.1.6.
I got this error when starting WLS. I changed the JAVA_HOME through
wlconfig.
-Tsung
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c:\weblogic>bin\wlserver
Java dll not found. Bad value for JAVA_HOME.
The system cannot find the path specified.
Java dll not found. Bad value for JAVA_HOME.
The system cannot find the path specified.
loadIt: Java DLL not found.
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
JAVA dll not found: c:\progra~1\javasoft\jre\bin\javai.dll:
The Windows registry is misconfigured
for the WebLogic Server
Can't start WebLogic Server: (Can't start Java VM) err=0x2000001--
Chuck Karish BEA Systems
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