Setting up a servlet

[jlipsitz]

Hi

I am new to tomcat and trying to setup a servlet to run on tomcat in linux. I have already created a .war file, but I am not sure where to place it. I thought there would be a folder in WEB-APPS to place the .war file and the class files. Also what changes need to be made if any to web.xml and server.xml?

Thanks

 

[sedj]

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html

So, taking for granted that you have organised you webapp in the correct structure - ie classes live under "contextRoot/WEB-INF/classes", then all you do is go to your contextRoot and type "jar -cvf mywar.war *" and then dump this file in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. No changes should be required to server.xml or the conf/web.xml file. Depending on whether you have the "invoker" servlet active (see conf/web.xml) you may or may not need to map your servlet in your contextRoot/WEB-INF/web.xml file like so :

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>YourServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
          YourServlet
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>

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