newbie: problems running forumdemo on tomcat 5

[RADEMAKERS Tanguy <ta...@swift.com>]

Hello,

I am experiencing problems running the forumsdemo app from the 
velocity-1.3.1 -download on Tomcat5:
The war file deploys just fine to http://localhost:8080/forumdemo, i can 
access the static html pages, but any link to 
/forumdemo/servlet/forum?action=list (or whatever action) returns a 404 
error from tomcat.

When building the script tells me that i will have to "Remember to set 
the PATH in Velocity.properties once you move the WAR to your Servlet 
engine." - i tried putting in PATH = /forumdemo but no change so i took 
it out.
I checked the controllerservlet for calls to getProperty() and all i 
found were lines to load file.resource.loader.path and runtime.log - 
both of which are already set in the props file.

My setup:

java 1.4.2
Tomcat 5
Windows 2000

--- web.xml---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2.2.dtd">
<web-app>
    <servlet>
     <servlet-name>forum</servlet-name>
     
<servlet-class>org.apache.velocity.demo.ControllerServlet</servlet-class>
      <init-param>
        <param-name>properties</param-name>
        <param-value>/WEB-INF/conf/velocity.properties</param-value>
      </init-param>
    </servlet>
</web-app>

--velocity.properties--
#
#  the following are specified relative to the
#  root of the webapp because the
#  ControllerServlet will setup these
#  properties with the right real path
#  prepended
#
file.resource.loader.path = /template
runtime.log = /forumdemo_velocity.log

I'm pretty new to Tomcat (even to java in general) so any help would be 
much appreciated,
Regs,
Tanguy




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