Tomcat and servlet error

blues_traveler · December 10th, 2004, 08:03 PM

* I created a "myApp" directory inside of the "webapps" directory.

* Added the "web.xml" file at the webapps/myApp/WEF-INF level.

* Then, I created a simple HelloServlet.java file and added the classfile in the webapps/myApp/WEB-INF/classes directory.

* The web.xml has the following form:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

    <!DOCTYPE web-app
        PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">

    <web-app>

        <servlet>
            <servlet-name>hello</servlet-name>
            <servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>
        </servlet>

            <servlet-mapping>
              <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
              <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern>
          </servlet-mapping>

    </web-app>

* After starting Tomcat, when I type the following link in IE, I get an HTTP Status 404 error: "The requested resource (/myApp/hello) is not available."

http://localhost:8080/myApp/hello

Even, the following URL doesn't work -

http://localhost:8080/myApp/servlet/hello

* I put an html file inside the "myApp" directory, and that does get loaded by the browser, so the Tomcat configuration/installation seems to be okay.

* I even tried adding a "Context" element in Tomcat's conf/server.xml file to explicitly define the "myApp" directory, but no use.

Really frustrated why things don't work. Any help would be most appreciated.

Thanks in advance !

angrycat · December 10th, 2004, 08:08 PM

Have you done everything explained in this thread:

http://p2p.wrox.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19115

angrycat · December 10th, 2004, 08:12 PM

Sorry, should mention there's some dodgey stuff in that thread which you do not need to do. Start with the stuff on uncommenting elements within Tomcat5\conf\web.xml

blues_traveler · December 15th, 2004, 10:25 PM

I did as mentioned in the thread, but no use. To make matters simple, I decided to move my servlet class to the ROOT directory.

I now have the following directory structure:

<Tomcat_install_dir>/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/sample/HelloServlet.class

The package name for the servlet class is "sample".

I started Tomcat and typed the following URL in IE:

http://localhost:8080/servlet/sample/HelloServlet

but got the 404 HTTP status error msg: "The requested resource (/servlet/sample/HelloServlet) is not available."

Is there anything else I need to do ????? The Tomcat example servlet does get loaded and the browser displays the text, but not for my servlet :-(

If it might help, here is the text for the HelloServlet class:
------------------

package sample;

import javax.servlet.http.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import java.io.*;

public class HelloServlet extends HttpServlet
{
    public void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
                throws ServletException, IOException
    {
        response.setContentType("text/html");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        out.println("<HTML>");
        out.println("<HEAD>");
        out.println("<TITLE>Hello</TITLE>");
        out.println("</HEAD>");
        out.println("<BODY>");
        out.println("Hello!");
        out.println("</BODY>");
        out.println("<?HTML>");
    }
}

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angrycat · December 16th, 2004, 08:42 AM

You MUST have 'servlet' in the URL, try

http://localhost:8080/servlet/myApp/hello

Have you uncommented the lines explained earlier in the thread?

Askar · January 15th, 2005, 09:37 PM

yep, try including 'servlet" in the URL... That should do it... You code looks right...