Chnages not effective in web.xml

[Animesh Gupta]

Hi All,
I got stuck with my first tomcat deployment. I am very new at this so finding difficulty to resolve the issue. Please help me out.

I am using Tomcat 7.0 on windows vista OS. As the tomcat service cannot start on windows vista. I downloaded the tomcat source and built it with apache ant.
Now, I am able to start and stop the server from the command prompt.

The directory structure is webapps>ROOT>MyApp>WEN-INF>classes.

In my html file I have the action set as follows ::--

  <form method = "POST" action = "PickChoose">  

In the web.xml I am having ::--

 <url-pattern>/PickChoose</url-pattern>  

When I tried to perform the action on html page it gave a message

  ERROR-404, The requested resource (/BeerV1/PickChoose) is not available.  

Now, I changes the " PickChoose to Picker " in both web.xml and html file. I shut down the server and restarted it from the command prompt.

Again I performed the action on the html and the message I got was ::--

  ERROR-404, The requested resource (/BeerV1/PickChoose) is not available.  

But, I changed the PickChoose to Picker. How did it gave me the old name, i.e., PickChoose ?

I am not able to run my app, guys help me with some insight.

Thanks and Regards
Animesh

[Poo Kan]

Animesh, shouldn't your application deployed under webapps? .... webapps>MyApp>WEN-INF>classes

[Amit Gajjar]

Try to clear the cache and restart the server. your changes to web.xml should be effective.

[Rene Larsen]

I don't know if it a typo - but the folder inside your WAR is called WEB-INF - not WEN-INF