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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by Dan & Sharon <sr...@dana.ucc.nau.edu> on 2001/04/23 20:33:43 UTC

Re: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearerdocumentation on getting servlets running

i am an ass,
i assume the web.xml content below was problematic cuz the dot notation
trying to find the class "class" in package servtest.  Well, i got this
figured out.

Dan & Sharon wrote:

> ok,
> install tomcat,
> jsps are workin,
> made new context,
> jsps are workin in it,
> write a servlet(5 min),
> try to get servlet working(5 hr),
> read documentation,
> it says put servlets in WEB-INF/classes dir, did that
> it says add servlet to WEB-INF/web.xml, did that
>     <web-app>
>         <servlet>
>             <servlet-name>servtest.class</servlet-name>
>             <servlet-class>servtest.class</servlet-class>
>         </servlet>
>     </web-app>
> restart tomcat(can't believe this has to be done everytime a servlet
> gets added or changed), did that
> it says call your servlet with
> "http://thehost/WEB-APP/servlet/theservletname"
> did that
> response: 404
> there's no servlet directory, kinda makes sense, but i thought mod_jk
> was taking care of that.  HMM.
> so now that i've followed the instructions and that didn't work, i make
> a servlet directory and add my servlet there.  web browser tries to
> download and save it to my disk, no display.
> i'm sure that this being a servlet engine, it would probably serve
> servlets, otherwise that would be really embarrasing for the
> programmers, so, anyone got any suggestions?