Thanks Zack. I do have the web.xml file in the WEB-INF directory. I am not sure what the heck is going on, becausee what happens is that the same tomcat version is being used in windowsxp and linux slackware, and I am using the same sample application. The only difference is that unders windows it works but not under slackware. This whole thing started with me trying a Struts sample application. I will continue to poke around to see if somehow I am doing something so wrong that I am not even seeing it.
Is there a way to get some logs going? The only error I get is 404 and the text that it cannot find such url i.e. '/jspcr2/chap05/examples/somepage.jsp' Thanks again. joao -----Original Message----- From: Zack Grafton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2007 8:26 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: Jsp gest 404 error Hello Again, Every web application requires a WEB-INF/web.xml file. If that file isn't there, Tomcat won't treat the directory you created as a web application. As long as you have WEB-INF/web.xml file, you can place the JSP files in subdirectories and Tomcat will find them. Hope that helps, Zack Coelho.Joao wrote: > What is strange is that the very same applications that did not work > in Slackware 10.1 using tomcat 4.1 do work in windowsxp using tomcat 5.5 . > I was trying to run examples from a book on JSP "The complete Reference" > and I placed the sample code in slackware under the webapps directory, > something like this: webapps/jspcr/chap05/examples/somepage.jsp. > Tomca4.1 does not find the jsp but will find other applications I have > under webapps. This same directory structure was used with Tomcat5.5 > in windows and I have no problem with it: the page somepage.jsp, for > example, shows up. > > I am not sure at all what the problem is. And I don't know if this > helps me, but is there a way to log the errors so that I can at least > try to figure out what's wrong ? > > -----Original Message----- > From: Zack Grafton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2007 6:12 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Jsp gest 404 error > > Hello, > > Everything in the WEB-INF directory isn't directly accessible; > meaning, if you type in something like > http://localhost:8080/myapp/WEB-INF/index.jsp, you will get a 404 error. > Where you should place them is entirely dependent on you. You can > write controller servlets and use a RequestDispatcher to forward to a > jsp in your WEB-INF directory. If you are just using jsp pages, don't > place them in the WEB-INF directory. > > Zack > > > Coelho.Joao wrote: > >> I am using tomcat 4.1. Where must the jsp page be in relation to the >> WEB-INF directory ? >> I am running into some dificulties with some pages. Some pages show >> up and others give me an error 404. >> >> >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, > e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
