I've spent 6-8 hours trying to figure out why Tomcat (ver 4.1.27) could not find servlet classes using a standard http://localhost:8080/%CATALINA_HOME%/appdir/servlet/ServletName url.
While trying to run this down I used a stack of JSP development manuals, the WROX Apache Tomcat manual, and the Jakarta website to no avail. I tried every conceivable permutation of deployment web.xml file, server.xml file and app directory structure (carefully following directions from multiple books). The solution was finally found in a devshed forum -- the invoker servlet mapping has been commented out of the conf/web.xml file in the binary distribution. Why???????????? My second question is where would documentation for this issue reasonably be found? Fiske (frustrated JSP developer)
