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MethodServer failed to start with "Content is not allowed in trailing section" in MethodServer log in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 22-Dec-2020   


Applies To

  • Windchill PDMLink 11.0 to M030

Description

  • MethodServer failed to start
  • Errors in MethodServer.log:
org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester  - Parse Fatal Error at line 854 column 11: Content is not allowed in trailing section.
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: jndi:/localhost/Windchill/WEB-INF/web.xml; lineNumber: 854; columnNumber: 11; Content is not allowed in trailing section.
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.createSAXParseException(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.util.ErrorHandlerWrapper.fatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLErrorReporter.reportError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLScanner.reportFatalError(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentScannerImpl$TrailingMiscDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1561)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.parseWebXml(ContextConfig.java:1901)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.java:1254)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.configureStart(ContextConfig.java:880)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.lifecycleEvent(ContextConfig.java:378)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleSupport.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleSupport.java:119)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.fireLifecycleEvent(LifecycleBase.java:90)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5343)
    at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:901)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:877)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:634)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:671)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1840)
    at java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:471)
    at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:262)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:744)
  • After CPS update MethodServer log reported below error:
org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.WebXmlParser  - Parse error in application web.xml file at [file:/D:/PTC/Windchill/codebase/WEB-INF/web.xml]
org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; systemId: file:/D:/PTC/Windchill/codebase/WEB-INF/web.xml; lineNumber: 971; columnNumber: 21; Error at (971, 21) : The servlets named [SSLAuthBridgeServlet] and [SSLAuthBridgeServlet] are both mapped to the url-pattern [/sslClientAuth/*] which is not permitted
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:1948)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.createSAXException(Digester.java:1980)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.endElement(Digester.java:1021)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.endElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanEndElement(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl$FragmentContentDispatcher.dispatch(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.impl.XMLDocumentFragmentScannerImpl.scanDocument(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XML11Configuration.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.XMLParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.parsers.AbstractSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.xerces.jaxp.SAXParserImpl$JAXPSAXParser.parse(Unknown Source)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.Digester.parse(Digester.java:1512)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.descriptor.web.WebXmlParser.parseWebXml(WebXmlParser.java:119)
    at org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.webConfig(ContextConfig.jav
 
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