After a lot of frustration and finally getting Websphere portal to 5.0.2 I h
ad to give up and go back to Portal 5.0. In the adminstration console of WAS
 I was getting a Servlet Error in the portion where the server details shoul
d have been. Said there was
a ServletException in:/secure/layouts/statusTrayLayout.jsp error. So I unins
talled everything and reinstalled Portal 5.0. Everything went well and then 
I started WAS and WP. Tried to connect with WSAD and it said cannot attach t
o JVM debug port 7777. So
I thought I might try and change the configuration to start the server in de
bug. I just changed one little thing in the administration console for WAS a
nd saved teh server configuration and hten the same error I mentioned above 
started appearing again.

I am again uninstalling and then going to reinstall the whole thing. Takes a
 good 4 hours to install.....

Does anyone have any idea why this thing is blowing???? Please help.

Thanks in advance,
Jac.

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jacobkur wrote:
>
> After a lot of frustration and finally getting Websphere portal to 5.0.2 I had to 
give up and go back to Portal 5.0. In the adminstration console of WAS I was getting
 a Servlet Error in the portion where the server details should have been. Said ther
e w
as a ServletException in:/secure/layouts/statusTrayLayout.jsp error. So I un
installed everything and reinstalled Portal 5.0. Everything went well and th
en I started WAS and WP. Tried to connect with WSAD and it said cannot attac
h to JVM debug port 7777. S
o I thought I might try and change the configuration to start the server in 
debug. I just changed one little thing in the administration console for WAS
 and saved teh server configuration and hten the same error I mentioned abov
e started appearing again.

>
> I am again uninstalling and then going to reinstall the whole thing. Takes
 a good 4 hours to install.....
>
> Does anyone have any idea why this thing is blowing???? Please help.

My guess is that one or more of the required Websphere fixes was not
installed or were somehow misapplied. Also ensure you install Websphere
Enterprise FP2

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well with my second install(WP 5.0) I just did a straightforward install fro
m the CD set that IBM sent. It just prompts for the CDs and apparently insta
lls without any errors. Not sure why it wont work then.

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ok....finally managed to start debug on Websphere_Portal. As earlier the adm
inistrator console started displaying errors. Strangely though after I left 
it running for a day the errors disappeared and now the console window seems
 to have returned to normal
. Dont want to investigate at this point as to what the problem was since it
 seems to be showing signs of cooperating.

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