Yes, you need the servlet defined in web.xml. For an overview of applications, you might want to check out the Application Developer's Guide:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html You can check out the web.xml file for the Tomcat examples to get an understanding of how the web.xml file works in relation to servlets. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick Martz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, December 09, 2002 2:35 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Layout/setup for a web-app...help? > > > Hi all, > please bear with me as I'm new to the whole web application thing. I > recently > downloaded and installed Tomcat 4.1. After reading all the > documentation > I could find, I tried to set it up so that I could run a > small web-app, but > I simply > cannot seem to get the web page to access the java servlet. > > The details: > I have created a project directory under the root > tomcat/webapps directory. > Within that directory is an index.html (which I'm able to successfully > access by http://localhost:8080/myproject/index.html). In the > myproject > directory > I have created a "WEB-INF" subdirectory, and a "classes" subdirectory > under that where my servlet.class file resides. I have a web.xml file > in the WEB-INF directory which is essentially empty (doesn't list > any servlet classes). > > No matter what link I've tried to put in my index.html to access the > servlet.class, it always fails to find it. So my question is, > what do I need > to do to make this work??? Do I need the servlet class defined in the > web.xml file? If so, how? And if I defined it, what is the > relative path > from > the index.html that I need to include? Do I need to make some > modifications > to the server.xml file as well? I have been working on this thing > for well over a day and I just can't seem to make it work (no > matter how > many examples I mimic or documents I read). Help! :) > > Patrick > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
