How to solve this error "HTTP Status 500"?

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type Exception report

message

description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

java.lang.NullPointerException
org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.list(HTMLManagerServlet.java:423)
org.apache.catalina.manager.HTMLManagerServlet.doGet(HTMLManagerServlet.java:161)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:743)
javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:856)

note The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Tomcat logs.

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Apache Tomcat/5.0.14

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Answered by: murali

May 17th, 2006

NullPointer Exception is a typical exception thrown when you tries to set incompatible datatypes without casting them

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murali

May 17th, 2006

NullPointer Exception is a typical exception thrown when you tries to set incompatible datatypes without casting them

Saroj

Aug 24th, 2006

I m getting so many times "this" error along with "The server encounter an error() that prevented it from fulfilling this requirement...So would u please tell how to solve this.

Mikin R Patel

Jul 20th, 2011

you r absolutely right bro......Murali
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