Security error while modifying web.xml - spring

Question

I am new to Spring MVC, trying to implement Spring Security features. When I modify the web.xml file I get this kind of error in Catalina log:
27.11.2012 9:49:21 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
The web.xml file is:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="3.0" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd">
<!-- The definition of the Root Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<context-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml /WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/security-context.xml
</param-value>
</context-param>
<filter>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<filter-class>org.springframework.web.filter.DelegatingFilterProxy</filter-class>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>springSecurityFilterChain</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<!-- Creates the Spring Container shared by all Servlets and Filters -->
<listener>
<listener-class>org.springframework.web.context.ContextLoaderListener</listener-class>
</listener>
<!-- Processes application requests -->
<servlet>
<servlet-name>app</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>contextConfigLocation</param-name>
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/app-servlet.xml</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>app</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>*.gif</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.png</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.js</url-pattern>
<url-pattern>*.css</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<!--CharsetFilter start-->
<filter>
<filter-name>CharsetFilter</filter-name>
<filter-class>kz.bimash.FoodSec.filters.CharsetFilter</filter-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>requestEncoding</param-name>
<param-value>UTF-8</param-value>
</init-param>
</filter>
<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>CharsetFilter</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>redirect.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
This code gives me an error, but when I tried to remove the Spring Security configuration part, it started to work fine. Could you correct my errors in web.xml?
Here is the Apache log file:
27.11.2012 10:57:37 org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase stop
INFO: The stop() method was called on component [StandardEngine[Catalina].StandardHost[localhost].StandardContext[/foodsec]] after stop() had already been called. The second call will be ignored.
27.11.2012 10:57:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deleteRedeployResources
INFO: Undeploying context [/foodsec]
27.11.2012 10:57:38 org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor
INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\tomcat7\conf\Catalina\localhost\foodsec.xml
27.11.2012 10:57:45 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error listenerStart
27.11.2012 10:57:45 org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/foodsec] startup failed due to previous errors

Answer 1

Could be a problem with your multiple configs:
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml /WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/security-context.xml
Try using a comma instead:
<param-value>/WEB-INF/spring/root-context.xml,/WEB-INF/spring/appServlet/security-context.xml
Best practice is to use wildcards, like this:
<param-value>classpath*:META-INF/spring/applicationContext*.xml</param-value>
And then have your context files named as:
src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/applicationContext.xml
src/main/resources/META-INF/spring/applicationContext-security.xml

Answer 2

You need to start using some logging framework. (put logging framework jars on your classpath)
Without deploy logs no-one is going to help you (we don't like to guess).
Take a look at the tutorial: http://fauzimh.wordpress.com/2011/01/26/spring-3-framework-hello-world-using-eclipse-slf4j-and-logback/
So now enable SLF4J and Logback in your project.
After enabling it, you should get information in Tomcat logs why your Spring XML configuration is bad. Use that information to solve your problem. Yes, I think the problem is not in your web.xml but in your Spring context files.