Having Problem with Tomcat and/or JDK

evenpar · July 7th, 2003, 08:27 PM

I downloaded and installed the Tomcat server. Then changed by system settings on my windows 98 machine and restarted my machine. But when I run a simple JSP (with in it <% new java.util.Date() %>, everything that is straight html appears. I know there has to be a simple answer to this.

jwenting · July 9th, 2003, 12:11 PM

You need to be a bit clearer here, what exactly is going wrong (or what do you expect to happen and what do you observe to happen)?

evenpar · July 9th, 2003, 02:53 PM

The following code :
<html>
  <head>
    <title>My First JSP</title>
  </head>

  <body>
    Hello world!<br>
    The current date and time is <%= new java.util.Date() %>
  </body>
</html>

produced the following:

Hello World!
The current date and time is

I put the JSP file in the folder begjsp-ch01 which is a sub directory of webapps.

Hopefully this is a bit clearer.

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by jwenting
You need to be a bit clearer here, what exactly is going wrong (or what do you expect to happen and what do you observe to happen)?

jwenting · July 10th, 2003, 08:58 AM

It looks like it's serving the file as plain HTML.

You probably saved the file as HTML instead of JSP (extension should be .jsp else Tomcat won't pass it to the JSP compiler/servlet engine but serve it as HTML in which case the <%= new java.util.Date() %> tag is simply passed on without parsing to your browser (which will then ignore it because it doesn't know what to make of it).

Also, while not strictly required it's good form to start a JSP with a tag <%@ page language="java" %>

evenpar · July 10th, 2003, 09:51 AM

I found out the reason I was getting that the JSP code was not executing was opening the JSP using windows explorer and launching it with IE instead of keying in the URL http://localhost/begjsp-ch01/index.jsp. The reason I did it was when I keyed in the URL Tomcat gave me an error message saying the file was not available.

I got to to work by creating a subdirectory begjsp-ch01 from the examples directory and keying the appropriate URL. Does any new sub directory off of webapps need to be registered somewhere?

aesposito · July 29th, 2004, 10:24 AM

Quote:

quote:Originally posted by evenpar
I found out the reason I was getting that the JSP code was not executing was opening the JSP using windows explorer and launching it with IE instead of keying in the URL http://localhost/begjsp-ch01/index.jsp. The reason I did it was when I keyed in the URL Tomcat gave me an error message saying the file was not available.

I got to to work by creating a subdirectory begjsp-ch01 from the examples directory and keying the appropriate URL. Does any new sub directory off of webapps need to be registered somewhere?

I am having the same problem....
Are you saying that you literally copied the jsp-examples folder to the begjsp-ch01 folder, added the first JSP file in book - index.jsp - and it worked? Please tell me!!