seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Dan Sharon
ok, install tomcat, jsps are workin, made new context, jsps are workin in it, write a servlet(5 min), try to get servlet working(5 hr), read documentation, it says put servlets in WEB-INF/classes dir, did that it says add servlet to WEB-INF/web.xml, did that web-app servlet

seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Dan Sharon
ok, install tomcat, jsps are workin, made new context, jsps are workin in it, write a servlet(5 min), try to get servlet working(5 hr), read documentation, it says put servlets in WEB-INF/classes dir, did that it says add servlet to WEB-INF/web.xml, did that web-app servlet

Re: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Sam Newman
Go back to first prinicples. Try accessing the servlet directly via tomcat rather than worying about apache - try looking at http://youmachine:8080/yourcontext/servlet/YourServlet The port 8080 reefres to the port tomcat is running on. With no port specified, it means you are trying to access via

RE: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Craig O'Brien
Just call your servlet as http://hostname/servlet/yourservletname Perhaps simpler then you thought. You will never call the WEB-INF directory in a url. That is for internal routing. You didn't tell apache to route to a WEB-INF directory did you? If that doesn't work simplify more and call

Re: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread suha_yacoub
Hello, are your examples working: http://server/examples/ ? You may have a problem with your server settings. Dan Sharon [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 04/23/2001 01:01:40 PM Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc:(bcc: Suha Yacoub/IL/ONE) Subject: seems as though a

Re: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Hunter Hillegas
There doesn't need to be a servlet directory. Tomcat will automatically handle it. The thing that's confusing is that the layout you call from the URL is mostly virtual... For your servlet-name element, are you sure you want the .class on the end? I can tell you that I've no problems setting

Re: seems as though a servlet engine would have a little clearer documentation on getting servlets running

2001-04-23 Thread Joel Parramore
restart tomcat(can't believe this has to be done everytime a servlet gets added or changed), did that There is a mode (not recommended for production use) for servlet changes to be noticed by Tomcat and for those servlet class(es) to be automatically reloaded, so you, strictly speaking,