I've got a tomcat application that runs on Windows 2003. It runs fine on my live server. We are migrating servers and I can't seem to get this same application to run on the new server. It must be some configuration settings but I'm not a java guy so it is tough to figure out. I installed the Tomcat HelloWorld examples and that works fine. Like this:
http://localhost:8080/exam
(I'm just trying straight through Tomcat - not IIS)
So my application url is like this:
http://localhost:8080/myap
That works on the old server. But on the new server I get a 404 not found error.
So I tried to do the most simple operation I could think of. Just pull up a JPG.
This url works on the old server:
http://localhost:8080/myap
On the new server I still get a 404 error.
The directory structure is like this:
C:\Tomcat\webapps\myapp
Now I can get the JPG to appear if I blow away this file:
C:\Tomcat\webapps\myapp\WE
But that web.xml file is exactly the same on both server. And if I delete that file it still doesn't get the real pages in the application to work like view.html, etc. I get 404 error on those.
web.xml (as well as every other file in C:\Tomcat\webapps\myapp\) is exactly the same on both machines so my problem is probably somewhere else. But not sure where.
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Thank you very much. Upon reading your reply I spent a lot of time investigating server.xml and web.xml to no avail. After all, how could it be port number? I only have to specify that in one place - c:\tomcat\conf\server.xml and I know I chose 8080. However, a text search revealed that the application had references to port 8082 within its java code. So switching the port fixed it.
Thanks.
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by: klymptzicPosted on 2009-11-07 at 22:19:05ID: 25769584
go thru this link, to verify your deployment procedure.
Also verify the port number, server.xml and web.xml file.
http://oreilly.com/java/ar