Servlet Deployment / 404 resource() not available error

Hi all,
I am relatively new to servlets, but I am trying to test a simple servlet with Ubuntu Karmic Koala 9.10 and Tomcat 6 and while I am able to seemingly get Tomcat working to the point where I can see the Tomcat page and run the Servlet and JSP examples when I visit http://localhost:8080, I cannot seem to get my own servlet to work when I add the new folder to the Tomcat folder webapps. In this folder I have created my new servlet folder which includes a folder WEB-INF which contains web.xml and the folder classes which contains MyServlet.class.

Based on the example I am working from this is all I should need to get my basic servlet up and running but when I try to visit the url corresponding to my servlet I get the http 404 error "resource() not available"

Is there some sort of Tomcat configuration that I need to do to be able to use my own servlets?

Thanks

Robyn

Is the servlet in a package other than the default? If not, fix that.

Did you declare and map the servlet in the deployment descriptor? Are you using the correct URL to address this mapping?

I discovered the problem is because of the following

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8851-1"?> = bad
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> = good

anyhow someone in another thread provided me the answer.

Sorry for posting a duplicate thread.

Robyn