Internal error: exception thrown from the servlet service function (uri=/login))
I have done an install of iPlanet Portal Server on a Solaris 8 machine and when I try to access the main Page I get:
[26/Apr/2002:16:15:27] failure (21872): Internal error: exception thrown from the servlet service function
(uri=/login): java.lang.NullPointerException, stack: java.lang.NullPointerException
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.isClientDetectionEnabled(AuthD.java :520)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthD.getClientType(AuthD.java:532)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthRequest.<init>(AuthRequest.java :102)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.AuthRequest.getAuthRequest(AuthRequest.ja va:177)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGetPost(Compiled Code)
at com.iplanet.portalserver.auth.service.LoginServlet.doGet(LoginServlet.java:990)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:701)
at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:826)
at com.netscape.server.http.servlet.NSServletRunner.Service(NSServletRunner.java:5 07)
, root cause:
Suggestions? I have sucessfully installed IPS before, but I cannot figure out the cause of this error.
Mike

