I forgot to mention, I am on Windows 11 Home Version 23H2 OS Build
22631.3447. I have also tried via WSL 2 on an Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (focal)
and had the same result.

On Sun, Apr 14, 2024 at 2:54 PM Tim Mousaw <tim.mou...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I started to go through the Getting Started examples at
> https://struts.apache.org/getting-started/index.html. I downloaded all
> the examples from https://github.com/apache/struts-examples. I would
> expect that I should be able to run `mvn jetty:run` from any of the
> examples, follow the appropriate link, and it should work as in the
> corresponding tutorial. However, this breaks down very quickly as when I
> try to run that for the `helloworld` example, I get the following error in
> my web browser when going to the link
> http://localhost:8080/helloworld/index.action:
> HTTP ERROR 404 Not Found
> URI: /helloworld/index.action
> STATUS: 404
> MESSAGE: Not Found
> SERVLET: default
> ------------------------------
> Powered by Jetty:// 9.4.46.v20220331 <https://eclipse.org/jetty>
>
> With debug logging enabled, navigating to
> localhost:8080/helloworld/index.action spits the following two lines of
> output to the console:
> 2024-04-14 14:44:44,340 DEBUG [qtp273531298-62]
> config.ConfigurationManager (ConfigurationManager.java:180) - Checking
> ConfigurationProviders for reload.
> 2024-04-14 14:44:44,343 DEBUG [qtp273531298-62]
> impl.InstantiatingNullHandler (InstantiatingNullHandler.java:98) - Entering
> nullPropertyValue
> [target=[com.opensymphony.xwork2.DefaultTextProvider@6dbebaa7],
> property=struts]
>
> If I remove the line "<constant name="struts.action.extension"
> value=","/>" from struts.xml, then the example seems to work. It gets the
> same two lines of output to the console followed by:
> 2024-04-14 14:51:46,765 DEBUG [qtp273531298-50] xwork2.DefaultActionProxy
> (DefaultActionProxy.java:85) - Creating an DefaultActionProxy for namespace
> [/] and action name [index]
>
> As well as a bunch of other logging after that before the page renders.
> From searching for this configuration, I think the intention of this line
> is to remove the `.action` suffix from the action (e.g. the link in the web
> browser displays localhost:8080/helloworld/index rather than
> http://localhost:8080/helloworld/index.action). So, I'm curious what I
> have configured wrong that doesn't allow this to work. I'm using Java 21
> (Corretto). Let me know if there are other dependencies that you need to
> know the version of.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
> Tim Mousaw
>

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