Hosted Demo Signup Produces Error Message

[VinceOutlaw]

I'd really like to try out Zimbra, especially for shared calendar hosting, but I can't get past the demo signup.
Here's the error page I got when signing up for a 2 week demo trial of Zimbra Collaboration Server. Live demos of Zimbra's open source email and group calendar software
I got this after filling out the form, putting in the character validation stuff, and hitting return...used both Google Chrome and IE 10 on Windows 8.
HTTP ERROR 500
Problem accessing /zimbraDemo/public/CaptchaServlet. Reason:
INTERNAL_SERVER_ERROR

Caused by:
java.lang.NullPointerException

at com.zimbra.cs.account.soap.SoapProvisioning.setPassword(SoapProvisioning.java:968)

at com.zimbra.zdemo.util.GenerateUser.doPost(GenerateUser.java:189)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727">HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820">HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:390)

at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:218)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)

at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:422)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:330)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.Dispatcher.forward(Dispatcher.java:126)

at com.zimbra.zdemo.captcha.CaptchaServlet.doPost(CaptchaServlet.java:118)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727">HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:727)

at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820">HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:820)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHolder.handle(ServletHolder.java:511)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.ServletHandler.handle(ServletHandler.java:390)

at org.mortbay.jetty.security.SecurityHandler.handle(SecurityHandler.java:218)

at org.mortbay.jetty.servlet.SessionHandler.handle(SessionHandler.java:182)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandler.handle(ContextHandler.java:765)

at org.mortbay.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext.handle(WebAppContext.java:422)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.ContextHandlerCollection.handle(ContextHandlerCollection.java:230)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerCollection.handle(HandlerCollection.java:114)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.rewrite.RewriteHandler.handle(RewriteHandler.java:230)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.DebugHandler.handle(DebugHandler.java:77)

at org.mortbay.jetty.handler.HandlerWrapper.handle(HandlerWrapper.java:152)

at org.mortbay.jetty.Server.handle(Server.java:326)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handleRequest(HttpConnection.java:543)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection$RequestHandler.content(HttpConnection.java:946)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseNext(HttpParser.java:756)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpParser.parseAvailable(HttpParser.java:218)

at org.mortbay.jetty.HttpConnection.handle(HttpConnection.java:405)

at org.mortbay.io.nio.SelectChannelEndPoint.run(SelectChannelEndPoint.java:410)

at org.mortbay.thread.BoundedThreadPool$PoolThread.run(BoundedThreadPool.java:451)

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[13537storm]

[quote user="1335tonster"]This should be good now. Sorry about that![/QUOTE]
It's a shame that over a year after releasing Zimbra 8, the demo is still Zimbra 7!
I've requested this on Twitter, this forum, and by email for over a year. With no substantive response.
Is Zimbra that hard to install? ;)

[ensenada]

pues para quitar ese error tienes que meterte a una pagina de demos y pues inveztigar bien