Hi Thomas, sorry for my temper with the initial post. I was overstressed obviously.. I really do not if it is the portal or the application server that fails. I get localhost:8080 fine but not /portal. console had many debug and error level messages. Some errors from jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA\server\default\log\server -------------------------------------- 2008-09-28 10:44:54,718 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Could not create deployment: file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/portal-wsrp.sar/ org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: TX TYPE was null for: Required; - nested throwable: (java.lang.RuntimeException: TX TYPE was null for: Required) 2008-09-28 10:45:05,843 ERROR [STDERR] org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyCreationException: Object name portal:service=ListenerRegistry not found: javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: portal:service=ListenerRegistry is not registered. 2008-09-28 10:45:05,843 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.mx.util.JMXInvocationHandler.(JMXInvocationHandler.java:163) 2008-09-28 10:45:05,843 ERROR [STDERR] at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxy.get(MBeanProxy.java:90) 2008-09-28 10:45:11,265 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.MainDeployer] Could not create deployment: file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/portal-hsqldb-ds.xml org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentException: create operation failed for package file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/portal-hsqldb-ds.xml; - nested throwable: (javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: portal:service=Hibernate,type=WSRPConsumer is not registered.) at org.jboss.deployment.SARDeployer.create(SARDeployer.java:280) at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) 2008-09-28 10:45:11,390 ERROR [org.jboss.deployment.scanner.URLDeploymentScanner] Incomplete Deployment listing: --- Incompletely deployed packages --- org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@403058eb { url=file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/portal-aop.xml } deployer: org.jboss.aop.deployment.AspectDeployer@694f12 status: Created state: CREATED watch: file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/portal-aop.xml altDD: null lastDeployed: 1222587888687 lastModified: 1222587888687 mbeans: org.jboss.deployment.DeploymentInfo@d818c2dc { url=file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/portal-admin.sar/lib/portal-faces-loader-lib.jar } deployer: org.jboss.deployment.JARDeployer@b4e29b status: Created state: CREATED watch: file:/K:/Work/JBoss/jboss-portal-2.6.6.GA/server/default/deploy/jboss-portal.sar/portal-admin.sar/lib/portal-faces-loader-lib.jar altDD: null lastDeployed: 1222587888750 lastModified: 1222587888718 mbeans: ..... 2008-09-28 10:49:49,140 ERROR [org.jboss.portal.server.servlet.PortalServlet] Cannot get portal server org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxyCreationException: Object name portal:service=Server not found: javax.management.InstanceNotFoundException: portal:service=Server is not registered. at org.jboss.mx.util.JMXInvocationHandler.(JMXInvocationHandler.java:163) at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxy.get(MBeanProxy.java:90) at org.jboss.mx.util.MBeanProxy.get(MBeanProxy.java:78) at View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4179220#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...