404 after adding web.xml

[Shoan Motwani]

I am a java noob. Been trying out the examples from Oreilly's Head First Servlets & JSP.

I am using Tomcat 5.5 running on Mac Os X 10.5.

I created webapps/Beer-v1 and dropped in a plain html file. On accessing it at http://localhost:8080/Beer-v1/form.html, I get the html page as expected. But after adding webapp/WEB-INF/web.xml containing the following, I don't get anything other than a 404.

<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/web-app_2_4.xsd"
version="2.4">
 
<servlet>
        <servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>net.shoan.web.BeerSelect</servlet-class>
</servlet>
 
<servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Ch3 Beer</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/SelectBeer.do</url-pattern>
<servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

The error I get is

HTTP Status 404 -
 
type Status report
 
message
 
description The requested resource () is not available.
Apache Tomcat/5.5.27

[Allahbaksh Asadullah]

Hi,
Please check your log files which are there in tomcat/logs.

There will be appropriate error message.

Regards,
Allahbaksh
htttp://allahbaksh.blogspot.com

[Allahbaksh Asadullah]

Hi,
Please note that a tag is not properly closed in the web.xml

<url-pattern>/SelectBeer.do</url-pattern>
<servlet-mapping>

</servlet-mapping>