tomcat, error 500, where to c the detail log

[portagal]

Hi everybody,
I have an application running on tomcat(I have inherited it). Now it is throwing 500 error, the massage is:

"The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request... More information about this error may be available in the server error log."

The only thing we did that triggered this was changing our password for the database we are connecting to and subsequently we change our password set up in web.xml and restart tomcat and now our app is not running due to error 500.
I have looked at tomcathome/logs but no helpful hint there.
Any help regarding where to look, what to do, or where i can see the details of the error would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Portagal

 

[sedj]

By default all tomcat logs are written to TOMCAT_HOME/logs.
However, this can be changed in conf/server.xml - so you should check for any other locations there.

My advise would be to :

Stop Tomcat.
Delete all the logs in the logs directory.
Restart Tomcat.
Invoke the page which throws the error.

Check all the logs in the logs directory - you should see an error somewhere ...

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