Cannot access the HelloWorldServlet

[Elinor Chang]

Okay, this might sound silly, but I just cannot invoke HelloWorldServlet from my newly installed Tomcat (I've never used Tomcat before). Here is what I did:
1. Copy the my.package.HelloWorldServlet to myTool/WEB-INF/classes/my/package
2. Add the following entry to myTool/WEB-INF/web.xml
<servlet>
<servlet-name>HelloWorldServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>my.package.HelloWorldServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
3. run bin/startup.sh
4. try to invoke the HellowWorldServlet as the followings:
http://10.131.69.26:8080/myTool/servlet/HelloWorldServlet
5. Got this error message
404 description The requested resource (/myTool/servlet/HelloWorldServlet) is not available.
Did I miss anything?
Thanks

[Ron Newman]

What version of Tomcat are you using?
In later versions, the "invoker" servlet is disabled by default. Re-enable it by un-commenting the following lines in your conf/web.xml file:

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
          org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet
        </servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>debug</param-name>
            <param-value>0</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>2</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>

[Elinor Chang]

The invoker is already uncommented. I am using 4.1.27...

[Ron Newman]

To make sure the invoker is properly working, can you try this?
http://10.131.69.26:8080/myTool/servlet/my.package.HelloWorldServlet
Also, make sure that all of the elements in your web.xml are in the right order. (I don't know what else you have in there.)
[ August 09, 2003: Message edited by: Ron Newman ]