Hello World for Struts 2 application not working

[Meles Kibrom]

Dear all
I am new to Struts 2 and while I am trying to deploy the HelloWorld application in the site: http://www.vaannila.com/struts-2/struts-2-example/struts-2-hello-world-example-1.html, exactly as written in my tomcat container is it saying 404: requested resource canot be found. what things am I missing. Please help I am stuck
regards

[Joe Ess]

"fish jones", please see your private messages regarding an important administrative matter.
As for your question, did you check your Tomcat logs for errors? Did you check the Tomcat administration console to see that the application deployed?

[Meles Kibrom]

I have this kind of information from my Tomcat 7.0/logs file, this log is written when I start Tomcat which indicates that there is something that I have to do first but I am not sure what it is ( note also that my application's name is called teme):

Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger warn
WARNING: Could not create JarEntryRevision for [jar:file:/C:/Tomcat%207.0/webapps/teme/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.2.1.1.jar]!
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/io/output/NullOutputStream
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager$JarEntryRevision.build(FileManager.java:307)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager.loadFile(FileManager.java:145)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.FileManager.loadFile(FileManager.java:105)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.loadConfigurationFiles(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:898)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.loadDocuments(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:154)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.init(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:121)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reloadContainer(DefaultConfiguration.java:179)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:66)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:371)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:415)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:190)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:273)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:254)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:372)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:98)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4461)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$2.call(StandardContext.java:5133)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$2.call(StandardContext.java:5128)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger info
INFO: Parsing configuration file [struts-default.xml]
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM com.opensymphony.xwork2.util.logging.commons.CommonsLogger error
SEVERE: Dispatcher initialization failed
Unable to load configuration. - bean - jar:file:/C:/Tomcat%207.0/webapps/teme/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.2.1.1.jar!/struts-default.xml:48:178
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:69)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init_PreloadConfiguration(Dispatcher.java:371)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.Dispatcher.init(Dispatcher.java:415)
	at org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher.init(FilterDispatcher.java:190)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:273)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:254)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.setFilterDef(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:372)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:98)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4461)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$2.call(StandardContext.java:5133)
	at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext$2.call(StandardContext.java:5128)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(Unknown Source)
	at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Thread.run(Unknown Source)
Caused by: Unable to load bean: type:org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.MultiPartRequest class:org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.multipart.JakartaMultiPartRequest - bean - jar:file:/C:/Tomcat%207.0/webapps/teme/WEB-INF/lib/struts2-core-2.2.1.1.jar!/struts-default.xml:48:178
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.register(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:232)
	at org.apache.struts2.config.StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.register(StrutsXmlConfigurationProvider.java:101)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.impl.DefaultConfiguration.reloadContainer(DefaultConfiguration.java:180)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.ConfigurationManager.getConfiguration(ConfigurationManager.java:66)
	... 15 more
Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileUploadException
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors0(Native Method)
	at java.lang.Class.privateGetDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
	at java.lang.Class.getDeclaredConstructors(Unknown Source)
	at com.opensymphony.xwork2.config.providers.XmlConfigurationProvider.register(XmlConfigurationProvider.java:222)
	... 18 more
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Error filterStart
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext startInternal
SEVERE: Context [/teme] startup failed due to previous errors
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8080"]
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocolHandler start
INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-apr-8009"]
Mar 21, 2011 5:18:50 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina start
INFO: Server startup in 1652 ms

[Joe Ess]

Looks like you are missing a dependency:

Caused by: java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: org/apache/commons/fileupload/FileUploadException 

What do you have in your WEB-INF/lib directory?

[Meles Kibrom]

Hi Joe
I have the following jar files in WEB-INF/lib directory:
1.commons-logging-1.0.4
2.freemarker-2.3.16
3.ognl-3.0
4.struts2-core-2.2.1.1
5.xwork-core-2.2.1.1

[madhuri kunchala]

Hi Meles Kibrom,
check this link https://coderanch.com/t/507224/Struts/unable-run-sample-application-Struts..hope this is helpful..

[Atul Darne]

please dont confuse between struts 2.2 and struts 2
they have some different concepts for the struts.xml configuration and the tags into it.

[Joe Ess]

Atul, am I missing something? Based on the last post in the thread she linked, madhuri looks like she's using 2.2.1. Meles looks like he's using 2.2.1.1
Meles, looking at the struts2-blank web application packaged in the Struts distribution (look in the apps directory), you should have at least the following in your WEB-INF/lib directory:

commons-fileupload-1.2.1.jar
commons-io-1.3.2.jar
freemarker-2.3.16.jar
javassist-3.7.ga.jar
ognl-3.0.jar
struts2-core-2.2.1.1.jar
xwork-core-2.2.1.1.jar

[Meles Kibrom]

Thanks Joe Ess and madhuri kunchala, I have put the jar files from the struts2-blank\WEB-INF\lib based on your information and is it working fine

thank you very much

[Joe Ess]