passing a file to a servlet (fopservlet) file not found error

[Chuck Paussa]

Hi, total tomcat newbie question:

I'm trying to pass a file to a servlet (FopServlet). The instructions 
say, go to a URL like this:               
http://localhost:8080/fop/fop?fo=/pathtofile/test.fo

Tomcat returns:

javax.servlet.ServletException: /pathtofile/test.fo (The system cannot find the path 
specified)
        at FopServlet.doGet(FopServlet.java:78)
        at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:740)

The servlet source code has
FileInputStream file = new FileInputStream(foParam);

I put the test.fo file in every tomcat sub-directory I thought might 
work and called it replacing "pathtofile" with every path combination 
might work. Still, I get a file not found error. So, there must be 
something that I'm not understanding correctly. Why can't my servlet 
find the file? I am running tomcat standalone, out of the box. Apache 
Tomcat/4.0.1

Here is how I configured the system:

server.xml
  <Service name="Tomcat-Standalone">
    <Engine name="Standalone" defaultHost="localhost" debug="0">
      <Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true">
          <Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0"/>
        <Context path="/fop" docBase="fop"  debug="0" reloadable="true" 
privileged="false"/>

C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1\webapps\fop\WEB-INF\web.xml

<web-app>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>            Fop        </servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>            FopServlet        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name> Fop </servlet-name>
        <url-pattern> /fop </url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Chuck Paussa


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