MVC tutorial Head First

Hi everybody,
i am trying to make MVC tutorial of Head Firts Ch 3.
I am at the step of checking the servlet whether it works or now.
but i what i see is page not found.SelectBeer.do is the url pattern.
Could you please help to to sove problem with web.xml mapping.
because i eveything what i need according to tutorial.
Thanks in advance

No one here is clairvoyant. Please show us your setup and mappings.

It will be better for us if you provide the code

ok
the path :
http://localhost:8080/Beer-V1/form.html works well.
When i try to submit : here you are the web.xml detail

i am getting the error like this :

HTTP Status 404 - /Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer%E2%80%9D
type Status report

message /Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer%E2%80%9D

description The requested resource (/Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer%E2%80%9D) is not available.

When i try to directly use the link:
http://localhost:8080/Beer-V1/SelectBeer

i got this :
HTTP Status 405 - HTTP method GET is not supported by this URL

here you are the web diractory structure:
form.html is in C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\Beer-V1

web.xml is in
C:\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\Beer-V1\WEB-INF

What can be the problem.

<url-pattern>/SelectBeer</url-pattern>

it will be

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

The 'action' value of your <form> is wrong. It should cover the exact url-pattern of the servlet.

thanks for quick reply
my html is

and i ahve changed the web xml to

and i am gettin the same error

type Status report

message /Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer.do%E2%80%9D

description The requested resource (/Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer.do%E2%80%9D) is not available.

web xml also SelectBeer.do

i am sorry for old file.

Change your XML from

TO

please see my las message i
I have already changed

You're using curly quotes instead of straight quotes. See, even the syntax highlighter borks on it, it doesn't color the values blue.

Use those quotes ".

Coulr you please expla'n me why the error 's wr'tten
type Status report with characters

%E2%80%9D

message /Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer.do%E2%80%9D

description The requested resource (/Beer-V1/%E2%80%9DSelectBeer.do%E2%80%9D) is not available.

please show your servlet class

Bauke you have done great.
it was beacues of qoutos.
now it works.

urrraaaaa

But why then browser didnot give any error about this quotos

You're welcome.

You won't get an error because the straight quotes are fully optional. Those curly quotes are just seen as actual part of the value. As those curly quotes aren't part of the basic ASCII charset, they got URL encoded before sending to the server side. More about URL encoding: http://www.w3schools.com/TAGS/ref_urlencode.asp

Thanks a lot

Oh, when I said optional, I do not necessarily mean that you should omit them. Always use them. Not only for readability, but also to avoid problems if you have spaces in the value. E.g. would only pick the value "foo" while would pick the full value "foo bar".

ok
i got it
thanks again