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How to run my servlets using tomcat 5.0

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How do I run my servlet programs in Tomcat 5.0. I have done the following as of now

1. I hace installed Tomcat 5.0 successfully. If i give 'http://localhost:8080/" in my browser i am getting the tomcat page and hence i can say tomcat is running

2. I installed j2sdk1.4.2_02 and I compiled my servlet successfully.

Now I have the class file of my servlet and I don't know how to run this servlet using tomcat 5.0.
I put this class file in webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes and tried to run from the browser. But it didn't work.

Can any one help me on this

Chandu

Mayank S

Give an entry for this servlet in web.xml

Mayank S

or alternately (a bad way), use: http://localhost:8080/servlet/YourServletClassName - but it might not be allowed on all versions of Tomcat.

shivsa

have u setup the CLASSPATH variable.

shivsa

You should add to your classpath the servlet.jar and the "." (current directory)
Ex: CLASSPATH=.;tomcat-install-dir/common/lib/servlet.jar

shivsa

Also you should uncomment the lines in the tomcat-install-dir/conf/web.xml that say: <servlet-mapping>

Mayank S

I guess Tomcat also comes with a setclasspath batch file - you can make use of that too, if its a class-path problem.

Ovi

Look at the servlet examples in Tomcat and follow web.xml file there. Should work.

malli143

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Also you should uncomment the lines in the tomcat-install-dir/conf/web.xml that say: <servlet-mapping>
if I try to modify this , tomcat is not starting

Mayank S

Can you post the content from your web.xml file? The entire part from <servlet-mapping> to </servlet-mapping>, if commented, needs to be uncommented. And you need to add an entry for your Servlet in that file.

Alternatively (just for testing), you can use the second approach which I had suggested earlier.

Mayank.

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