I just started basic servlet programming. i am using tomcat and eclipse indigo.
I have created a dynamic web project and added a new servlet with name NewServlet to the project and copied the servlet-api.jar to the lib in the WEB-INF folder. and created a an html file named c.html in the WEB-INF folder. I have edited the web.xml and made the welcome file value c.html. now when i run using run on server option, the c.html file is not getting displayed the url is http://localhost:8080/p3/NewServlet. what might be the mistake?
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Ulf Dittmer
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and created a an html file named c.html in the WEB-INF folder.
That's your problem - nothing that is inside WEB-INF will ever be served to the client directly. You need to move the file one directory level up (which is the root of web app's directory hierarchy).
Sorry my mistake. It is inside the folder called web content. which now has META-INF,WEB-INF and NewFile.html
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Some more points:
and added a new servlet with name NewServlet to the project
http://localhost:8080/p3/NewServlet looks like it should run this servlet. The URL for having the welcome file served would be http://localhost:8080/p3/ (assuming that "p3" is somehow the name of the web app, which I have no idea about how that works in Eclipse).
and copied the servlet-api.jar to the lib in the WEB-INF folder
You should not do that. The Servlet API jar files are part of the servlet container; they must not be part of the web app as well.
I agree. Here's the link: http://ej-technologies/jprofiler - if it wasn't for jprofiler, we would need to
run our stuff on 16 servers instead of 3.
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