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Hello,

Could anyone help ?

I used the Head First Servlets & JSP for studying the Servlet/JSP. And I was got stuck on the exercise in Chapter 3.

The webpage displaying is OK. But when I try to run the first edition of Controller Servlet. I got the following error:

HTTP Status 404 - /Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do

type Status report

message /Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do

description The requested resource (/Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do) is not available.

Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

My program environment is Java 5.0.06/Tomcat 5.5.17 (Window 2000 professional).

I have double checked my code spelling and the directory is follow strictly as the book suggest.

Can anyone help to give some advise ?

Thanks in advance!!

Albert
 
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Please post your servlet-mapping from web.xml.
There's probably no mapping associated with SelectBeer.do
 
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Thanks for your response!

Here is my web.xml

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">

<servlet>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.example.web.BeerSelect</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/SelectBeer.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

Looking forward to hear from you soon!
 
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Originally posted by Albert Liou:
Hello,

Could anyone help ?

I used the Head First Servlets & JSP for studying the Servlet/JSP. And I was got stuck on the exercise in Chapter 3.

The webpage displaying is OK. But when I try to run the first edition of Controller Servlet. I got the following error:

HTTP Status 404 - /Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do

type Status report

message /Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do

description The requested resource (/Beer-v1/SelectBeer.do) is not available.

Apache Tomcat/5.5.17

My program environment is Java 5.0.06/Tomcat 5.5.17 (Window 2000 professional).

I have double checked my code spelling and the directory is follow strictly as the book suggest.

Can anyone help to give some advise ?

Thanks in advance!!

Albert



Might be a wrong guess.

Did you compile the servlet???
 
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Could you also post your FORM tag please ?
 
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Another thing. What is the name of your web application ?
Is is "Beer-v1" ? (the folder under webapps in Tomcat)
 
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Hello Rathi,

yes, I did compile the servlet file and put it in the directory according to the book suggest.(\Tomcat_5.5\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\classes\com\example\web\)

Any more advise ?

Thanks!
 
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Hello Satou,

Following is my form tag file :

<html><body>
<h1 align="center">啤酒選擇畫面</h1>
<form method="POST"
action="SelectBeer.do">
選出想喝的啤酒<p>
顏色:
<select name="color" size="1">
<option>Light
<option>amber
<option>brown
<option>dark
</select>
<br><br>
<center>
<input type="SUBMIT">
</center>
</form></body></html>

And I put this file in \Tomcat_5.5\webapps\Beer-v1\

Thanks
 
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Where did you put web.xml ?
 
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Hello Satou,

I put the web.xml in \Tomcat_5.5\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\


Appreciate for your response.
 
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Mmmm... I don't know. The error message seems to point out that the mapping between your form action and your servlet is not found.
The mapping is either wrong (but it seems correct here), or web.xml is not found.

Are you sure you have \Tomcat_5.5\webapps\Beer-v1\WEB-INF\web.xml, with the exact content you've posted above ?
And Did you try to restart Tomcat ?
 
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I am still can not resolve the problem, But I am still try to work it out. Can anyone help to explain the meaning of "...:classes:." in the following command, I do not know what this for ?

"cd MyProjects/beerV1

javac -classpath /Users/bert/Applications2/tomcat/commom/lib/servlet-api.jar:classes:. -d classes src/com/example/web/BeerSelect.java"

Thanks a lot!
 
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"classes" is the name of the directory where your class files are.
So it says : put the "classes" directory into the CLASSPATH, so that the compiler can find my class files.
 
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You probably want to type /Users/bert/Applications2/tomcat/common/lib/servlet-api.jar, not /Users/bert/Applications2/tomcat/commom/lib/servlet-api.jar
 
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try creating a new directory under webapps say "beer" and transfer all your files there. restart tomcat and enter the new url it might work. i had the same problem.

regards
vinay
 
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Hi Albert,

I think you might have done mistacke when you are compiling your servlet java file in package.. you need use the cpmmand like
javac -d servlet.java

Then only all your packages will be created and you can run your program successfully..

Thanking You
SuneelKota
 
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Try to remove one or more documentory under C:\Tomcat\webapps\ such as "webdav". I had the same experience as yours and found that way would be useful. (A BUG in Tomcat?)
 
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Weichia Huang,

Welcome to Javaranch.

The thread you've posted to is months old.
It should be safe to assume that the original poster has moved on from this issue by now.

Also, Tomcat is one of (if not the) most popular servlet containers in the world. The Head First series is also extremely popular. If there was a bug in Tomcat that kept the examples in that book from running, there would be many Many posts in here from people complaining about it. Since there are not, it is usually best to assume first, that the problem is with your code.
 
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