HTTP Status 404

Hi all,

I have just started learning servlets few days back. I am trying to execute a simple servlet program but there is an error coming up. I tried to check the previous posts related to this error but i could not solve it. I am posting the web.xml file, the html file and servlet to make things more clear to you.

html file:
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action ="loginProcess">
Firstname : <input type = "text" name = "firstname"><br>
Lastname :<input type = "text" name ="Lastname"><br>
Password :<input type = "password" name ="passcode"><br>
<input type ="submit" value ="register">

</form>
</body>
</html>

web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
<display-name>Register</display-name>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet1</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.controller.LoginServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>LoginServlet1</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/loginProcess</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

servlet:

package com.controller;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

public class LoginServlet extends HttpServlet {

@Override
protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws ServletException, IOException {
// TODO Auto-generated method stub
System.out.println("**logingserlvet**");
super.doGet(req, resp);
}

}

I checked whether the directory structure of the project and it seems to be correct. I think i have also given a write url pattern in web.xml file. I don't know if i am missing something. Any help is appreciated.

you should check web.xml file.

See the ServletsFaq where this issue is addressed.

In web.xml you have write the servlet name "LoginServlet1" which should be like that "LoginServlet".

Ideally a page with password should be sent as a POST method rather than a GET to avoid it from displaying it on the URL.

How are you deploying this application? Most probably the class file of the servlet is not where it should be.

Vineet P Rao wrote:Ideally a page with password should be sent as a POST method rather than a GET to avoid it from displaying it on the URL.

However, sending it as a POST makes it no more secure than making it a GET. For security, the request must be encrypted via SSL.