Dear users I'm unable to get a Hello World Servlet running from my browser.
Configuration: Windows XP Version 2002 service pack 3 Apache-tomcat-7.0.23-windows-x86 CATALINA_HOME = c:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23-windows-x86\apache-tomcat-7.0.23 CLASSPATH= .;c:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23-windows-x86\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\servlet-api.jar JAVA_HOME=c:\Program Files\jdk1.7.0 compiling as javac HelloWorldServlet.java -cp CATALINA_HOME/lib/servlet-api.jar I manually copy HelloWorldServlet.class to the apress directory under webapps and the web.xml to webapps/apress/WEB-INF I start Tomcat from CATALINA_HOME\bin as catalina start I get the following output: Jan 09, 2012 12:40:51 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDirectory INFO: Deploying web application directory C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.23-windows-x86\apache-tomcat-7.0.23\webapps\apress INFO: Server startup in 1017 ms In Google chrome I type: http://localhost:8080/apress/hello.html I get the following output in my browser: -HTTP Status 500 - type Exception report message description The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request. exception javax.servlet.ServletException: Error instantiating servlet class HelloWorldServlet org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472) and this is the logs: INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache', 'org.apache.jasper.compiler.TldLocationsCache@4ded8e') Jan 09, 2012 12:40:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log INFO: Marking servlet helloworld as unavailable Jan 09, 2012 12:40:49 PM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve invoke SEVERE: Allocate exception for servlet helloworld java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: HelloWorldServlet at org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader.loadClass(WebappClassLoader.java:1688) Thanks in advance Alastair --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
