The situation at my end is : OS : 100% (i.e., Everthing Install ) PCQ Linux based on Red Hat 7.1 Kernel is 2.4.2-2 on an i686 Oracle : Oracle 9iAS 1.0.2.0.0 Portal : Oracle Portal 3.0.6.6.5 Database : Oracle 8.1.7 Server : Apache 1.3.12 Java : JDK 1.3.1 link to /usr/local/java Browser : Netscape Navigator 4.77 Settings in initORCLora : 1. large_pool_size = 25728640 2. java_pool_size = 30971520 Installation is Enterprise Edition and database,listener,portal,apache is in the same $ORACLE_HOME on a single machine [configuration is : 1 GHz Celeron (Tulatin), 128 MB Ram,Desktop stand alone PC (no network card/no modem),40 GB HDD - multibooting with Linux having 9 GB and swap is 1 GB at the end of the disk] Database is up and running. Listener is running and listening at 1521. Apache server is running at port 7777. 9iAS Portal is running. Portal schema is portal30. Database, Listener, Apache is manually started. http://localhost:7777/pls/portal30_sso is working. .bash_profile of oracle user includes following : LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/lib:/lib:/usr/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/usr/local/lib LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:$ORACLE_HOME/ctx/lib export LD_LIBRARY_PATH CLASSPATH=$ORACLE_HOME/JRE:$ORACLE_HOME/jlib:$ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/jlib CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/network/jlib CLASSPATH=$CLASSPATH:$ORACLE_HOME/Apache/Jserv/etc/jserv.properties Problem : When I try to connect http://localhost:7777/pls/portal30 I get "Internal Server Error". The content of error_logs of Apache is : "java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(JServConnection.java:320) at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(JServConnection.java:188) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)" and error_logs of Jserv is : "[19/09/2002 13:45:47:213] (ERROR) ajp12: Servlet Error: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError: null [19/09/2002 13:45:47:213] (ERROR) an error returned handling request via protocol "ajpv12" [19/09/2002 13:45:47:074 GMT+05:30] page/oracle.webdb.page.ParallelServlet: init [19/09/2002 13:45:47:085 GMT+05:30] page/Starting a pool of 25 handlers. [19/09/2002 13:45:47:191 GMT+05:30] page/Unexpected exception in servlet java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: java.util.HashMap at org.apache.java.lang.AdaptiveClassLoader.loadClass(AdaptiveClassLoader.java:448) at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadClassInternal(ClassLoader.java) at oracle.webdb.page.PageBuilder.(PageBuilder.java:333) at oracle.webdb.page.ParallelServlet.doGet(ParallelServlet.java:78) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:499) at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:588) at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(JServConnection.java:314) at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(JServConnection.java:188) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java) [19/09/2002 13:45:47:261 GMT+05:30] java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.processRequest(JServConnection.java:320) at org.apache.jserv.JServConnection.run(JServConnection.java:188) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java)" It will be great help if anyone can tell me whats going wrong. Best Wishes ash

Thanks to all who read this question. I have managed to solve my problem. Now the portal is running. It was JDK 1.2.2 error. Check http://www.experts-exchange.com/Databases/Oracle/Q_20366763.html best wishes. ash.