servlet does not load

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hi
i am a beginner in servlets .
i am facing a problem that when i type
http://localhost:8080/servlet/myservlet1 in the browser
i donot get the output

the servlet class file is in Tomacat4.1\webapps\Root\Web-inf\classes directory

though the examples given in the webapps\Root\examples run fine
and also the welcome runs fine with
http://localhost:8080/
madhur

[Cory Wilkerson]

Check your web.xml file that should be available in the root of web-inf. You'll need to look at servlet mappings to ensure that any requests made to "/servlet/myServlet1" are appropriately routed to the instance of your running servlet:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>myServlet1</servlet-name>
  <servlet-class>mypackage.MyClass</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>mySerlvet1</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/servlet/myServlet1</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>  

Hope this helps! See Sun's Servlet Spec for more information (war files).
Cory Wilkerson

[William Brogden]

For Tomcat 4.1.1? they made a change in the defaults so that /servlet/yourservlet doesn't work. I recently found a nice tutorial on getting Tomcat 4.1?? working at Tutorial at Moreservlets.
See item 3 under Configure Tomcat which discusses the "invoker" servlet.
Bill