How do I get servlets to work on tomcat 6.0.20 ? HTML and JSPs are working for me.
Ok, I know it seems that this question turns up a lot (for previous releases), having Googled and read many sites over the last week. But none of the advice works for me. So, I am turning to the list. Detaisl fo what i have been trying to do follow Followed a tutorial on the "javaboutique" web site; actually seems to be for tomcat 4, but I did not believe this basic servlet test would have changed (??) Note that I shutdown/started between each step below (many times actually). 1. I downloaded and installed Tomcat 6.0.20 on my own id, Linux Red Hat 5 system, started the server on port 8080, checked access to the Tomcat supplied pages - all ok. Also installed Sun JDK 1.5 onto my own id and point JAVA_HOME and JRE_HOME at it. Initially was running using rocket 64 bit JRE. 2. Created Hello.html and Hello.jsp as per tutorial, in sub-directory INSTALLATION_DIR/webapps/ROOT/Hello Pointed my browser (IE 7) at these and they WORK fine. 3. Compiled servlet HelloServlet as per tutorial and placed into sub-directory INSTALLATION_DIR/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes 4. Initially pointed my browser at http://<my_web_address>:8080/servlet/HelloServlet and got the well known HTTP 404 message 5. Tried editing INSTALLION_DIR/ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml to set in particular the url-pattern but still got the 404 message. 6. Then edited the INSTALLATION_DIR/conf/server.xml file to uncomment the INVOKER servlet option. When trying to access http://<my_web_address>:8080/servlet/HelloServlet I not longer get the 404 message but a message from IE 7 staying that it could contact the web site but more or less that the file was not available. 7. I do notice in the catalina.out log file that there is an exception being thrown wit a a message regarding Security exception - that the Invoker is a privileged mode and that the "examples" directory cannot be handled. Needless to say I have not touched the examples directory. Thanks in advance. Charles. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org