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

[su...@bankone.com]

Hello,
are your examples working: http://server/examples/ ?
You may have a problem with your server settings.





"Dan & Sharon" <sr...@dana.ucc.nau.edu> on 04/23/2001 01:01:40 PM

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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?