Eric Mckenna wrote:

> My app is dying while trying to load the web.xml file. Nothing has changed
> except that http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd is unreachable from my
> location. Why, I dont know.
> All I get are "Cannot find Server or DNS Server" in IE and in Netscape the
> request just times out.

> Is there a way to point the web.xml file to use another dtd, perhaps a
> downloaded one?

It does so anyway. The URI for a DTD is *not* used to download it. URIs
were chosen for DTDs not to enable people or systems to download them
but to make uniqueness easier to guarantee. I have no idea why they
decided to use "http" URIs rather that "dtd://java.sun.com/whatever".

> I was under the impression that the url for the dtd was never downloaded by
> the server. I guess I was mistaken.

No you were absolutely right.

> Using WL 8.1, jdk1.4

I would run weblogic.appc on your web app - if it isn't deploying there
is something wrong with your war or ear.

Can you access the weblogic console from your browser?

Robert