It sounds like you're using an invalid URL and not being routed to the FacesServlet. In JSF, you can't use the URL of the JSP file itself - you have to set up a URL pattern that routes to the FacesServlet and use that.
The secret of how to be miserable is to constantly expect things are going to happen the way that they are "supposed" to happen.
You can have faith, which carries the understanding that you may be disappointed. Then there's being a willfully-blind idiot, which virtually guarantees it.