On Sat, 17 Feb 2001, you wrote:
>
> hi everybody....
>
> i have just downloaded and installed Tomcat and am a complete
> newbie at it...the installation gave me a few problems like "environment
> out of space " and a few other regarding the class path etc...but i have
> manged to get it right now....
>
> the problem is that I dont know how to run my servlets !!!
> I am running Tomcat and Apche on my Windows 2000 machine...
>
> the path where i am storing my .class files is:
>
> c:\tomcat\webapps\user\web-inf\classes\hello.class
>
> i have been told, that one need to add web.xml file to the
> classes directory ??
>
> can some one please tell me :
>
> 1. Where to store the .class files ?
You are putting them in the right place
> 2. what link to give to the browser ?
If you are running tomcat standalone and have not changed the
default port settings then
http://localhost:8080/user/servlet/hello
If you have integrated Apache and tomcat then
http://localhost/user/servlet/hello
> 3. in what way should i configure the web.xml file ??
> ( there is already a web.xml file in tomcat\conf\......)
There are two types of web.xml file. The default which is global
to tomcat i.e. the one in tomcat\conf. I believe from 3.2 onwards
this is no longer read by tomcat so you can forget about it.
You can also and should define a web.xml file for each web app.
This should be deployed in the WEB-INF dir of your app (not the
classes dir)
Take a look at the web.xml file in the examples directory.
Also, chapters 9,10 and 14 of the Servlet API spec is the best place
to learn how to configure web.xml. It is available at
http://java.sun.com/products/servlet/
Hope this helps
Andrew
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