Article - CS115128

Users fail to login to Windchill User interface with error HTTP Status 404 in the browser in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 07-Aug-2024   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 10.0 B000 to 13.0

Description

  • Users fail to login to Windchill UI with error following error in browser :
HTTP Status 404 - not found
The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists
  • Method Server reports SERVLET ENGINE NOT RESPONDING upon starting
  •  Method Server reports following error just before MethodServer is ready message in the logs:
INFO  [Servlet engine main] wt.system.err  - SEVERE: Parse error in application web.xml file at [file:<WindchillHome>/Windchill/codebase/WEB-INF/web.xml]
[Servlet engine main] wt.system.err  - org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:<WindchillHome>/Windchill/codebase/WEB-INF/web.xml; lineNumber: 121; columnNumber: 7; The element type "filter" must be terminated by the matching end-tag "</filter>".
  • Error message in MethodServer log
ERROR [wt.intersvrcom.SiteMonitor.timer] wt.intersvrcom.SiteMonitor  - Names=[master], URL=http://<hostname>/Windchill/servlet/WindchillGW, Status=SERVLET ENGINE NOT RESPONDING, ResponseSeconds=0.103350216, TimeOfPing=yyyy-MM-dd 08:57:14.37
  • Windchill page has been inf loading state after input user name and password
  • Apache request have HTTP Status 404 :
"GET /Windchill/servlet/WindchillGW/wt.httpgw.HTTPServer/ping HTTP/1.1" 404 253 504
"GET /Windchill/servlet/WindchillGW/forward/wtcore/test/dynAnon.jsp HTTP/1.1" 404 259 364
  • Unable to login to FlexPLM system after rehost by using url https://<Windchill_URL>/Windchill/rfa/jsp/login/loginRedirect.jsp and browser reports JSP code instead of JSP webpage as shown:
User-added image
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