Hi I did everything in the Appendix C shuch us mvn package –Dmaven.test.skip=true (include also the extra details from the thread about the problem in the parent pom)and create in the target directory the file pixweb-0.0.1.war.Then I copy the file into the webapps directory of my Tomcat server directory and then I running tomcat using startup.
The page http://localhost:8080/pixweb-0.0.1/albums.htm displays
HTTP Status 404 -

type Status report
message
description The requested resource () is not available.

Thanks in advance thrylos97

I know that you posted a while ago and am sure that you found an answer to your problem but I will give you my answer anyway, i guess it can't hurt. change http://localhost:8080/pixweb-0.0.1/albums.htm to http://localhost/pixweb-0.0.1/albums.htm and this should work. For many versions, Tomcat came configured to use port 8080 to listen for http requests. A common practice especially for "production" servers was to change this to port 80, the standard port to listen for http requests. I had learned quite a while ago to make this change whenever I upgraded to a new version of Tomcat. I recently downloaded a version 6.0.20 and when I initially tried the first request with port 8080, I received the same result. I looked in the server.xml file in the conf directory and searched for 8080 and realized that it was set for port 80. If it is port 80 you do not need to have a port number in your address. I hope this helps.

EverettG