I am stuck on same issue. I tried reconfiguring Tomcat on Eclipse using sysdeo plugin but when I try to run simple jsp page am getting same 404 error. Any help would be highly appreciated ?
Thanks, Ados On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 8:51 AM, Chris Lenart <clen...@comcast.net> wrote: > I'm getting simular issue. Tomcat is working and see its welcome page in > Firefox. When I run a imple jsp in Eclipse, it is giving 404. What do I > have to do? > > Chris > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ognjen Blagojevic [mailto:ogn...@etf.bg.ac.rs] > Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 4:50 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Tomcat Configuration in Eclipse > > > This is normal. > > When you start Tomcat manually, it uses YOUR-TOMCAT-HOME/webapps as > default webapp directory. This directory contains "ROOT" webapp (visible > > on context "/"), and that is the welcome page you see. > > On the other side, when you start Tomcat inside Eclipse, it uses some > other webapp folder like > YOUR-ECLIPSE-WORKSPACE/.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tm > p0/wtpwebapps, > which doesn't contains ROOT webapp (or, sometimes contains blank ROOT > webapp). In that case on context "/" (http://localhost:8080/), you will > get either HTTP error 404 or blank page. > > Regards, > Ognjen > > > ados1...@gmail.com wrote: > > Interesting Things are happening with my Tomcat. > > > > Points to Note: > > > > > > 1. I am installing tomcat version 6.x and than running it by > clicking > > startup.bat file and it is running fine as when I check in browser > typing > > http://localhost:8080/ it shows me the Apache Foundation Welcome > pages > > saying that Installation works fine. > > 2. Interesting thing to note is that when I stop my server using > > shutdown.bat file than it work fine but now if I start my server > using > > eclipse than it starts but when I go to browser to check Apache > Foundation > > Welcome Page than it is not there and I get message as under and it > is > > confusing. > > > > > > Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 - Error report > > Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 - Error report HTTP Status 404 - / > > ------------------------------ > > > > *type* Status report > > > > *message* */* > > > > *description* *The requested resource (/) is not available.* > > ------------------------------ > > Apache Tomcat/6.0.18 > > > > > > Any guidance would be appreciated. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >