/test/GreetingServlet doesn't work

Jan 22, 2008 18:42:00

Hi,

I am using NetBeans 6 to configue a servlet. The Tomcat server is bunded within NetBeans. So it is not necessary to set up classpath and copy folders etc as with Eclipse.
I followed the totorial, it does work. However if I modified it a little.
index.jsp is

web,xml is

If I go to http://localhost:8080/test/GreetingServlet
I got

Why?
Thanks
[ January 23, 2008: Message edited by: Ulf Dittmer ]

Jan 22, 2008 18:53:00

"test" is your contextPath (web application name) so you shouldn't need to include it in your servlet-mapping.

Change it to:
<url-pattern>/GreetingServlet</url-pattern>
and see if that fixes it.

Once you get past this, you should see our article on creating context relative paths.
http://faq.javaranch.com/java/ResourceUrls

This is a much better way to go than hard coding the contextPath in your URLs.

Jan 23, 2008 05:48:00

It is still not working.
I modified it in many combinations.
In web.xml, or index.jsp and context.xml.

Thanks for your advice.

Jan 23, 2008 06:04:00

Originally posted by Hui Zhao:
It is still not working.
I modified it in many combinations.
In web.xml, or index.jsp and context.xml.
...

This doesn't give us a lot with which to work.

What is the full path to your index.jsp page on your hard drive, starting with the drive letter?

Jan 23, 2008 06:04:00

What does your servlet-mapping entry look like now?

You should not have to modify context.xml for this to work.

Jan 23, 2008 06:28:00

The full path of index.jsp is in

Jan 23, 2008 06:57:00

Ben's first post explained why that doesn't work. Did you implement the fix he suggested?

Jan 23, 2008 07:11:00

I have changed it.

But when I deployed it. I got

Jan 23, 2008 07:13:00

Personally, I recommend that people starting out learning servlets put their IDE aside until they are comfortable writing, compiling, and deploying at least a simple 'Hello, World' program in a spec compliant container like Tomcat.

I don't know how Netbeans is deploying your apps within Tomcat so I can't be of much help to you.
I'm going to move this thread to our IDEs forum where you stand a better chance of finding someone who knows what it does.

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