I discovered what has changed is that later versions of Tomcat (ie 3.3x and 4.0x) are much more picky about the order of things in the web.xml file. I reordered things in mine and things worked much better ;-)
At 12:56 PM 5/30/2002 -0400, you wrote: >The contents of the web.xml is defined by the Servlet 2.2 >spec, which hasn't changed. More detail will be needed >to tell what is going wrong. You can set the debug level >on SimpleMapper1 in server.xml to get more clues about >why your servlet isn't being found. > >Cheers, >Larry > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Maureen Barger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:22 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: moving from 3.2 to 3.31 > > > > > > Hi -- I am having some trouble moving an application from > > tomcat 3.2 to 3.31. > > In my server.xml, I have pointed the ContextXmlReader to look > > at my custom > > apps.xml. My context is mounts and I can access it. But in > > the web.xml of > > the application I have defined a servlet to map to a location > > and it is not > > loading -- I get a 404. > > i.e. <servlet> > > <servlet-name>brand</servlet-name> > > <servlet-class>JarBranderServlet</servlet-class> > > </servlet> > > > > <servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>brand</servlet-name> > > <url-pattern>/brand</url-pattern> > > </servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-mapping> > > <servlet-name>brand</servlet-name> > > <url-pattern>/brand/*</url-pattern> > > </servlet-mapping> > > > > Has defining servlets changed in 3.31 as well? (So much else > > has!) The only > > clue in the docs is the application deployment doc, which > > warns that it is > > outdated. ======================================================== Maureen Barger, CIT/ID, Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14850 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mo.cit.cornell.edu/ Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order. --Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>