Basic question on JSP deployment

[ekatz]

I'm new to JSP and I must be missing somthing.

I'm trying to deploy a simple "Hello World" app which consists of only one jsp file.

I created a separate directory under webapps and put the
.jsp file into it. I created a WEB-INF subdirectory with a simple web.xml file. I restarted Tomcat.

It sounds from the documenation that Tomcat will automatically see the new subdirectory and add the new "application". But when I try

http://localhost:8080/mydir/myapp.jsp,

I get the http 404 error: Requested resource not available.

What more do i have to do?

 

[jnicho02]

that should be all you need to do....I take it that you saw the Tomcat main page on startup

http://localhost:8080/index.jsp

so JSP works....

can you see

http://localhost:8080/mydir/

? it's case sensitive. Jeremy Nicholson, Director of

http://www.firstlightassociates.co.uk

a UK-based Java and Data Warehousing consultancy

 

[ekatz]

Thanks for your reply.
Yes, I can see

http://localhost:8080/index.jsp

No, I cannot see mydir. (I renamed my jsp to "index.jsp".

I thought that maybe there was something wrong with my jsp, so I copied index.jsp from ROOT to mydir, and I also copied the web.xml. I restarted Tomcat.

I still does not work. I get "HTTP Status 404
The requesed resource /mydir/ is not available"

Puzzled...

 

[GrSw]

Do you have installed only one Tomcat server on your machine ?

 

[GrSw]

Just several ideas, assuming you have Tomcat 4:

- Could you run

http://localhost:8080/admin,

and see if you have the context /mydir under the 'localhost' host ?
- In your server.xml config file you should have the entry similar to this:
<Host name=&quot;localhost&quot; debug=&quot;0&quot; appBase=&quot;webapps&quot;
unpackWARs=&quot;true&quot; autoDeploy=&quot;true&quot;>
Is your appBase set to webapps ?

Maybe that helps
Grzegorz

 

[ekatz]

I think I found it.
It seems that I had configured Tomcat to run as a service, but was also starting and stopping it manually.
So when I thought I was stopping it, there was still an instance running.
Thanks to everyone for all their help.