Hello Chris, I'm a little embarassed to say that I was watching a log file on a different machine, I had one too many xterm's opened. It was a long weekend :)
However, on the server where I was having my problem, the ending tag for the filter's url pattern was wrong. I had </urlpattern> instead of </url-pattern> Thank you for your help though! On 7/26/05, Chris Ward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Joe, > > Are you sure your filter is doing the right thing? > > Sounds like it may be forwarding to a "bad" URL or > something. If it works without the web.xml then I > assume you've set up your <context> for the /cms > application. > > Maybe try a > > System.err.println( myDestURL ) > > in the filter and then copy/paste that output into > your browser to see it exists. > > Hope this helps. > Chris Ward > > > > > > > > > Hello, > > > > I'm running Tomcat 5.5.7, and right now I have one > > application ( the default application ). I just created a new > > dir ( $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/cms ) for a new application. The > > home page ( index.jsp ), for the application, is just a > > simple jsp file with static content. > > > > Once I added a WEB-INF/web.xml file, with just filter & > > filter-mapping tags, and my welcome-file list, and browse to > > the application I get a 404 error. Now, if I remove the > > web.xml file from the WEB-INF/web.xml directory, I see the > > correct index.jsp. > > > > I'm looking in the $CATALINA_HOME/logs/catalina.out file and > > see nothing. I have watched the file, using "tail -f" during > > start up, and don't see any message about a misconfiguration > > in my web-xml file. > > > > Am I missing a step in the process of creating a new web > > application? Any help would be appreciated. > > > > Thanks. > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
