Unable to load servlet in Tomcat 5.5

[Narasimha Sharma]

Hi...

I'm using tomcat 5.5 for the first time. I have a jdk6 installed in my system. When I try to deploy a servlet, it is not getting picked up in the browser.

I have created a directory structure like this

WebApps
|
|
V
ROOT
|
|
---Sample
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|
---index.html
|
WEB-INF
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---web.xml
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classes
|
----HelloServlet.class




This is a copy of my web.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">

<web-app>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>myHello</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myHello</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/hello</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>


Link Tag my index.html :

<A HREF="hello">Run HelloServlet</A>


I get this error when I click the "Run HelloServlet" link :

HTTP Status 404 - /Sample/hello

type Status report

message /ch1/hello

description The requested resource (/ch1/hello) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.33

[Bear Bibeault]

You put the context root of your web app in ROOT. This is wrong. It belongs in webapps; ROOT is its own application.

[William Brogden]

Also classic error:

<servlet-class>HelloServlet</servlet-class>

All classes used in servlets must be defined in packages and the compiled class file stored appropriately. Reason being that the JVM looks in the "current" directory for default package classes and you have NO control over the current directory with servlets.

See also FAQ on the dreaded Invoker servlet.

Bill

[Tim Holloway]

Welcome to the JavaRanch, Narasimha!

[Narasimha Sharma]

Thanks Bear !! It worked when I moved the folder to webapps rather than webapps->ROOT ..

Thanks Tom for the welcome !!

[parni raghuvanshi]

hello sir,previously i was using eclipse but it did not work good,so i suggest to install tomcat server & work in notepad but i do not know why tomcat server is not running,after installing tomcat when i click on the start an icon named "monitor tomcat" is seen ,when i click on it a message was encountered "access is denied unable to open the service tomcat 6.0".I downloaded it many times but same problem got occured.can you help me & give some suggestions.