Status 404 - HTML, not available

[nybz]

I am a newbie and just installed Tomcat 5.0.28 on my home Windows XP machine. I am getting the HTTP Status 404 -/webapps/myForm.html error: "the requested resource (/webapps/myForm.html) is not available. The HTML file is in "C:/tomcat/webapps/examples/myForm.html". The URL in the browser window shows "

http://localhost:8080/webapps/myForm.html".

It is a very simple form. What am I missing?

 

[sedj]

Try

http://localhost:8080/examples/myForm.html

instead

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[nybz]

Thanks sedj. It is still not working - still get the same error. The browser path shows 'examples' instead of 'webapps'. Will try other paths tonight if you think it's path related. Could it have something to do with permissions? The form loads fine when selected from Windows Explorer, just can't seem to get Tomcat to see it.

 

[sedj]

I take it that C:\tomcat is your TOMCAT_HOME ...
Can you post the contents of the examples directory under webapps ...

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[nybz]

webapps/examples/WEB-INF/classes&lib
under classes/com/samples/model&web
myForm.html is the only file under examples
WEB-INF has a web.xml file
All other directories are empty
The error msg is Tomcat generated,
so I know I get that far

 

[nybz]

more -
I copied the myForm.html file to
C:\tomcat\webapps\ROOT
which executed fine as

http://localhost:8080/myForm.html

 

[sedj]

and

http://localhost:8080/examples/myForm.html

defintely throws a 404 ? Weird ...
I take it you have not modifed the server.xml file or any config file ...
What happens when you copy TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/examples directory to TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mywebapp and then access

http://localhost:8080/mywebapp/myForm.html

?
Try clearing your browser cache aswell ...

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[nybz]

Sorry for not confirming your assumptions.
Correct - TOMCAT_HOME is C:tomcat, and no files have been modified (server.xml or any configs).
Tried the copy & test - still errs.
Cookies & all temp internet files deleted - to clear cache - to no avail.
It seems that "

http://localhost:8080"

is taking me to webapps/ROOT, and not honoring my path. I tried putting myForm.html in the balancer directory (because it was created during installation and the others were my own creation) and going to

http://localhost:8080/balancer/myForm.html

- which not only did NOT hit my form, but took me to the jakarta.apache.org home page.
How would I check/change this ROOT default behavior?