Had an issue today after having installed the application engine and then the latest fixpack. WebSphere reported that the application started just fine, but when accessing http://my_server/Workplace it failed with a NullPointerException. Part of the stacktrace
[07.02.13 18:10:45:986 CET] 0000002e SystemOut O Loading logging config: null This was in test, in the dev environment where it is working SystemOut.log reported
[2/7/13 18:39:24:274 CET] 00000043 SystemOut O Loading logging config: D:\\AEShare\\FileNet\\Config\\AE\log4j.propertiesAfter a lot of cursing it turned out that the problem was caused by Windows and access to the share where the log4j-file was located. As a wild guess I granted access to “Everyone” and voila…it worked…Windows shares…simply hate it. WebSphere running as local system account, did not cause any problems in the dev environment, but test…don’t know why yet.