On 5/5/07, Kevin O'Mara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I am using tomcat5 5.5.20, Revision 3, java/tomcat5 from MacPorts.
I am following the instructions for the Addison Wesley book: "Servlets
and JavaServer Pages: The J2EE Web Tier" from the first chapter.
The first chapter may be found here: http://www.jspbook.com/jspbook-01.pdf
Sorry, I didn't refer to the book, but just wanted to let you know
that the instructions for different versions of Tomcat can differ
across versions.
If the book is providing instructions for a much older version of
Tomcat, and if you are using a much later version of Tomcat the
instructions can be significantly different from my experience with
any software.
I am on the part where the author is creating the jspbook directory and
is placing a web.xml file in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/jspbook/WEB-INF
So far the above configuration looks correct to me.
directory, and a jspbook.xml file in the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps In Tomcat 5.5.x
jspbook.xml should not be placed under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps
directory. I cannot get the webapps/jspbook directory to be recognized
by my Tomcat setup no matter what I do, after following these steps and
continuous restarting of the server. I am assuming that it is ok to
forgo the editing of the server.xml file like the book says.
This is the error I receive after retrieving http://localhost:8080 -
HTTP Status 404 - /jspbook/
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*type* Status report
*message* _/jspbook/_
*description* _The requested resource (/jspbook/) is not available._
In your case, it appears that the folder under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/jspbook/
is empty and the directory listing is set to false.
It helps to set directory listing to true, because if you place a JSP
file other than
index.jsp under $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/jspbook/ directory , or if the
directory is empty you will get the HTTP Status 404 - /jspbook/
In order to set the directory listing to true follow these simple steps
1) Open the web.xml file under $CATALINA_HOME/conf/ directory
2) Look for :
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
change that to
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
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Apache Tomcat/5.5.20
Please help. Thanks in advance.
Once you set the directory listing to true, you should be able to see
the directory under
http://localhost:8080/jspbook/ which is currently empty.
Place some dummy JSP file under webapps/jspbook , either call it
index.jsp or anything else .jsp and you should be able to see its
contents from the browser by invoking
http://localhost:8080/jspbook/
-Regards
Rashmi
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