Webapp "cannt be displayed", but Tomcat default can

[lbrechler]

Hi all,

I start Tomcat, using startup.bat, and I am then able to see

http://my.ip.address.site/

(which is the default jakarta-tomcat homepage), but then when I try to access

http://my.ip.address.site/webapp/jsp/welcome.html,

it says that "The page cannot be displayed."

Any suggestions? This seemed to be working until today, when I shutdown the tomcat command window, and then rebooted the computer and started it up again...

TIA,
~Lindsay

 

[GrSw]

By default Tomcat can see the the web application in at least two cases:
1. Web application is the direct subdirectory of the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps, and has the subdirectory WEB-INF containing the valid web.xml.
2. There is a <Context ...> entry in the $CATLINA_HOME/conf/server.xml file containing attribute docBase pointing to the full path of your web application and path attribute indicating the URL.
In the case you describe it should be path=&quot;/webapp/jsp&quot; and the docBase=&quot;/full_path/to/your/application.

But your URL could suggest that you have just mistyped it.

http://my.ip.address.site/webapp/jsp/welcome.html

/webapp/ instead of /webapps/, and jsp as the direct descendant of webapps, which is quite uncommon configuration.

Hope this helps
Grzegorz