browser stopping at .do page

[Paul Giancola]

Hello all,
I'm new to struts and am seeing something weird. I have an application which requires logon. I have set up LogonForm & LogonAction classes to handle this and have configured them in stuts-config.xml as needed.
Now the weird part, when I logon the browser goes to a logon.do page. Why would this be? Any help would be appreciated.
Paul

[David Hibbs]

.do is the standard extension that the Struts Action servlet responds to. Forms submit to a target, and in struts this is automatically filled as login.do -- view the source of your login form to see it. Make sure the path is right. I would guess that the problem is either an exception (check the error log) or a lack of a .properties file for the app. Viewing the source and the server logs can be your best friends for getting started with struts.

[Paul Giancola]

David,
I'm glad you brought the above up. Unfortunately, I've confirmed the *.properies file is there and I've also looked at the source of the logon form. The action places it to logon.do.
I don't think I've missed anything,have I?

[Richard Walton]

Have you checked out your web.xml file in your web-inf? It should have something looking like this in it:

  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.apache.struts.action.ActionServlet</servlet-class>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>application</param-name>
      <param-value>ApplicationResources</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>config</param-name>
      <param-value>/WEB-INF/struts-config.xml</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>debug</param-name>
      <param-value>2</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>detail</param-name>
      <param-value>2</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <init-param>
      <param-name>validate</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>
    <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>action</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.do</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>  

You see in the web xml you are telling the web server that all url patterns ending with .do must be routed through the Struts Action.
Hope this helps

[Paul Giancola]

I've confirmed that my web.xml has the correct configuration for the action servlet.
The log shows the below
Processing a POST for /logon
action: Setting locale 'en_US'
action: Looking for ActionForm bean under attribute 'LogonForm'
action: Creating new ActionForm instance of class 'com.irt.it.logon.LogonForm'
action: Storing instance under attribute 'LogonForm' in scope 'request'
action: Populating bean properties from this request
action: Validating input form properties
action: No errors detected, accepting input
action: Looking for Action instance for class com.irt.it.logon.LogonAction
action: Double checking for Action instance already there
action: Creating new Action instance
And that is it. Is this what I should be seeing?

[Richard Walton]

Well that output looks good! :-) Send me your code and jsp's amd stuff and i will have a look ate it! :-) [e-mail]