RE: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

[Craig O'Brien <cr...@dynamic-apps.com>]

Just call your servlet as  http://hostname/servlet/yourservletname

Perhaps simpler then you thought. You will never call the WEB-INF directory
in a url. That is for internal routing.  You didn't tell apache to route to
a WEB-INF directory did you?

If that doesn't work simplify more and call
http://hostname:8080/servlet/yourservletname that will bypass mod_jk.  If
that isn't working your servlet is not placed correctly or you are missing
the servlet.jar.  Put your servlet in the same directory that you find
snoopServlet.

Regards,
Craig

-----Original Message-----
From: Dan & Sharon [mailto:srf3@dana.ucc.nau.edu]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 10:56 AM
To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org
Subject: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer
documentation on getting servlets running


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?