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hi
i'm trying to set up a search using the following servlet
Search Servlet
though i'm having problems but maybe i'm just confusing myself. i have a standalone tomcat 4.0.4 server running on sunsolaris 2.6 OS.
The context path in the tomcat conf/server.xml file is set to /../../library, which of course contains the directories WEB-INF/ AND WEB-INF/lib WEB-INF/classes.
I have set the library/WEB-INF/web.xml file as described in steps 2 and 3, put the config.txt file in the library/WEB-INF directory and the searchPackage.jar file in the library/WEB-INF/lib directory.
My config.txt file is
root - unix path from root to config.txt, ie /f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps/library/WEB-INF/config.txt
web - tomcat server root http://hera/company.co.uk:8081
I have also put the html form code on the web page like the following
<html>
<form action="http://hera/company.co.uk:8081?f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps/library/WEB-INF/config.txt">
<input type="Text" name="search"> <input type="Submit" value="Search">
</form>
</html>
When i put the the form code onthe jsp page it is ok, but when i make teh changes to the web.xml file and add the servlet mapping and add the searchPackage.jar to the library/WEB-INF/lib directory then i get
the following 404 - library/home.jsp not found. (ie its not finding the context path - i've checked on the borwser and its pointing to the correct file, so why is it not finding it ?
Can you see where i'm going wrong ?
Any help appreciated.
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Chris

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step 2 and 3 in what document?

<form action="http://hera/company.co.uk:8081?f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps/library/WEB-INF/config.txt">
That looks totally messed up.

What exactly do you have for the context element in server.xml ? Where is the home.jsp file located? What is in the address bar when you get the 404 message?

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The context path in the tomcat conf/server.xml file is set to /../../library, which of course contains the directories WEB-INF/ AND WEB-INF/lib WEB-INF/classes.

That does not sound right to me - how did you come up with that context path? For Tomcat 4 you should not have to mess with the server.xml at all if you are creating an application under the normal webapps directory.
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step 2 and 3 in what document?
<form action="http://hera/company.co.uk:8081?f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps/library/WEB-INF/config.txt">
That looks totally messed up.
What exactly do you have for the context element in server.xml ? Where is the home.jsp file located? What is in the address bar when you get the 404 message?

i'm trying to implemetn this search servlet -
http://www.servletsuite.com/servlets/search.htm
here is my context path in the server.xml

and this is where the home.jsp file is - f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps.

That does not sound right to me - how did you come up with that context path? For Tomcat 4 you should not have to mess with the server.xml at all if you are creating an application under the normal webapps directory.
Bill

thanks - i'm creating a directory from the root of the folder at this directory
/f/http/supportserv/lis/webapps, which is why iset it in the server.xml. tomcat is located in this directory -
hera:/Basis+/basisv91/java2/java/jakarta-tomcat-4.0.4>

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