Java Servlets /JSP

[betzi kuriakose]

Dear Forum,

Iam new to Java web development. Iam in the process of developing a website. I have installed tomcat server on a PC which as Win XP as OS. The Tomcat server has been configured and can be accessed on this PC. I have written a JSP fragment which runs fine locally on this PC. Now when I try to access this page from another PC connected to the previous PC by LAN, I encounter an error.
Please advise me on how to go about with a solution to this.
Thank you

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by betzi kuriakose:
Please advise me on how to go about with a solution to this.

First and foremost, be complete when you post to a forum.

Telling us you get an error without sharing the details of that error is not giving us any information to help you out with.

Also, what URL are you using to access the JSp locallly? Remotely?

These are the types of details that you must include in order to get helpful responses.

[betzi kuriakose]

My Apologies for the incomplete post.

The error is true for a servlet also
Locally, the URL used is hhtp://localhost:8081/servlet_name
the servlet is placed in the tomcat installation's webapp/root/web-inf/classes directory.

remotely, the URL used is hhtp://Ip_address_of_remote_machine:8081/servlet_name

The error displayed is "Network Access Message. There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed."

Hope this would suffice.

[Bear Bibeault]

hhtp?

And why 8081? Did you change the default of 8080?
[ March 03, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[betzi kuriakose]

sorry for the typo error
hhtp to be read as http

On the first PC I have an oracle service running on 8080 hence I changed the tomcat to be on 8081. I have made this updation to the server.xml file

[William Brogden]

"Network Access Message. There is a problem with the page you are trying to reach and it cannot be displayed."

That sounds like one of microsoft's "friendly" error messages that is concealing the actual error message the servlet is sending. I believe you can configure the browser to show the real error.

Can you address the default Tomcat pages using that URL from remote PCs?

Bill

[betzi kuriakose]

I cannot access the remote tomcat server's default page.

[betzi kuriakose]

I cannot access the remote tomcat server's default page.

[William Brogden]

remotely, the URL used is hhtp://Ip_address_of_remote_machine:8081/servlet_name

When you say Ip_address_of_remote_machine - is that a local network address?

Bill

[betzi kuriakose]

yes
Also I noticed something
If I log in as an administrator to the remote system, I am able to access the tomcat server's default page. however, Iam not able to access the servlet in the root directory of the tomcat server.