simple question

[Ravi Sathish]

Hi
I am newbie to Servlets, JSP and Tomcat.
all I want to do is run my servlet HelloWorldServlet on the browser
i.e: http://localhost:8080/servlet/HelloWorldServlet
I am getting http status 404 error:
type: Status report
message /servlet/HelloWorldServlet
description The requested resource (/servlet/HelloWorldServlet) is not available
I have HelloWorldServlet.class in
C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\examples\WEB-INF\classes
My classpath:
C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes;C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\common\lib\servlet.jar;
My tomcat_home:
C:\Program Files\Apache Tomcat 4.0\bin
Any help is appreciated
Ravi

[Anonymous]

try to put your servlet into a package. Then you should be able to
request it via http://machine ort/servlet/package/Servlet.

[Amit KumarS]

Hi Ravi...
try this URL in your browser
http://localhost:8080/examples/HelloWorldServlet
and if this doesn't work (it has to work if there is nothing else wrong... ) then check ur Web.xml file inside your WEB-INF directory.
there should be two entries..

<servlet>
     <servlet-name>HelloWorldServlet</servlet-name>
     <servlet-class>HelloWorldServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/HelloWorldServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

hope this helps you... in case of dooubt please revert back..
Thanks
Amit

[Bosun Bello]

Based on where your classes are, this should work.
http://localhost:8080/examples/servlet/HelloWorldServlet

As already posted though, it's better to have a web application and then use its web.xml to configure how your servlets are accesed.

[swapna Kadali]

Hi, I had the same problem and even i am new to all those u mentioned.
But i solved that problem by making sure whether the tomcat installation is done properly, check the port where ur running the tomcat server first.
I use NetBeans IDE, so i exported a war file including all files and dropped in tomcat's webapp's folder and then browse.
http://localhost:8080/warfilename/path in URL mapping of web.xml file
It should work, hope it would help for you.

[swapna Kadali]

Hi,
In general, it is suggested you to install tomcat in

C:/Jakarta/Tomcat4.0 ( according to my professor) without any blank spaces in the folder.

[Tim Holloway]

By default, in Tomcat 4 and later, you can't invoke a servlet that's not defined in a web.xml file (no drop-and-go). This is a security feature.

[Ravi Sathish]

Thanks for all the help.
I did not restart my server after registering my servlet.
Thanks

[rashu gulati]

Hello
I joined the forum today only .Hope my answer helps you out.All you need to do is to have a web.xml file in /mainwebapp/WEB-INF which will look something like this.
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
AssignmentCookie
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
AssignmentCookie
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>
AssignmentCookie
</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>
AssignmentCookie
</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
All u have to do is to replace the assignmentCookie by your file name.
Hope it helps you.