Messed up web.xml deployment descriptor

[dendenners]

Hey there,
Last week I had weblogic understanding a .war file I had created. Unfortunately, in the time being I have messed something up, and I don't know what. My war file is defined as follows in weblogic.properties:

weblogic.httpd.webApp.ramApp=c:\\weblogic\\myserver\\public_html\\WEB-INF\\RAM.war

The servlet mapping is defined as follows in my web.xml file:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
ramtool
</servlet-name>

<servlet-class>
com.omnipay.ram.control.RamServlet
</servlet-class>

However, this doesn't work. The action in the form on my jsps refers to &quot;/ramtool&quot;. Whenever I click a button in my war-red application, the url goes to &quot;/ramtool&quot; and not &quot;/ramApp/ramtool&quot; as it should. What am I forgetting? This is very frustrating because it was working fine until I starting messing around with it.
Thanks

 

[wushutwist]

You need to give it a servlet-mapping. Check the DTD for the web.xml file.

 

[dendenners]

Sorry I should have said I already had a (probably incorrect)servlet mapping. This is it:
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>ramtool</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>ramApp/ramtool</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

This doesn't seem to do anything, my browser still goes back to /ramtool each time. Is there a problem with this mapping, or what? Thanks

 

[wushutwist]

First of all your Web App will have the base context of

http://servername/webappname/

unless you have set the Web Application to be WebLogic's default Web Application. In this case it's context would be

http://servername/.

So change the servlet-mapping to just reflect the servlet name, not the web application name. Try:

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>ramtool</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/ramtool</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

Then in your case, try accessing the servlet using:

http://servername/ramApp/ramtool

The previous attempt probably would have worked if you tried

http://servername/ramApp/ramApp/ramtool

because you were duplicating the web app name in the servlet-mapping.

It would also help if you mention what version of WebLogic you are using in future posts. You are using 5.X correct?

 

[dendenners]

Thanks for your interest so far.
I'm using WL 5.1 SP9.
The way I access the application is through a jsp page called ram.jsp
When I try to access

http://localhost/ramApp/ram/jsp/ram1.jsp,

the ram jsp comes up fine. It is when I click on the submit button on this page that the server attempts to access the /ramtool servlet, without putting in the ramApp.

I had the mapping as you suggested as /ramtool, but the server is still attempting to access the wrong url. There must be something stupid I am forgetting, because this was working a few days ago. Thanks again

 

[dendenners]

Thanks for your help. I discovered the problem was not in the actual deployment descriptor, but in the code. I was actually encoding the url in a class I had written, and the servlet name had been hard-coded there. So I had to add an optional property to add in the war name before this so that the url was correct. Thanks for your help.