Dear sir <br>After completing the installation of dspace,when i am trying to access the url <a href="http://localhost:8080/dspace" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">http://localhost:8080/dspace
</a><br>the following error will appear on screen<br><br><h1>HTTP Status 500 - 
</h1><hr noshade="noshade" size="1"><p><b>type</b> Exception report</p><p><b>message</b> </p><p><b>description</b> <u>The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.</u></p><p>
<b>
exception</b> </p><pre>java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/lib/tomcat5/work/Catalina/localhost/dspace/org/apache/jsp/index_jsp.java (No such file or directory)<br>        java.io.FileOutputStream.open(Native Method)<br>        java.io.FileOutputStream
<br>.&lt;init&gt;(FileOutputStream.java:179)<br>        java.io.FileOutputStream.&lt;init&gt;(FileOutputStream.java:70)<br>        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.generateJava(Compiler.java:188)<br>        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile
<br>(Compiler.java:495)<br>        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:476)<br>        org.apache.jasper.compiler.Compiler.compile(Compiler.java:464)<br>        org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java
<br>:511)<br>        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:295)<br>        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:292)<br>        org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java
<br>:236)<br>        javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)<br></pre><p><b>note</b> <u>The full stack trace of the root cause is available in the Apache Tomcat/5.0 logs.</u></p><span class="sg"><br clear="all">
</span><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Shali.K.R<br>Asst.Librarian(Digital)<br>Vidya Academy of Science &amp; Technology<br>Thrissur, Kerala.<br>Mob:9847593531,9846303531