Tomcat installation

[Anila Mathew]

Hi,

This is the first time i am using Tomcat and i wanted to see an html file by running http:localhost:8080/DirName/form.html.I have put form.html in both tomcat/webapps folder and also in D:/dirname/web/. But its giving a file not found exception.What else i need to do?

Thanks,
Anila.

[chsanthosh kumar]

Hi,

This is the first time i am using Tomcat and i wanted to see an html file by running http:localhost:8080/DirName/form.html.I have put form.html in both tomcat/webapps folder and also in D:/dirname/web/. But its giving a file not found exception.What else i need to do?

Thanks,
Anila.

Hi Anila ,

U can place those html files in under webapps/jsp-examples folder.

And u can access from them.

http:localhost:8080/jsp-examples/form.html

Like this.

thanks.
Regards.
Santhosh.Ch

[Ulf Dittmer]

The right place would be tomcat/webapps/DirName/form.html.

[Ben Souther]

Originally posted by Ulf Dittmer:
The right place would be tomcat/webapps/DirName/form.html.

Yes, and DirName needs to contain a folder named "WEB-INF" in order for Tomcat to see this directory as a web application.

[Anila Mathew]

Hi Ulf, Ben,

I have placed the form.html in the directory structure you have specified.I have a WEB_INF directory also, but it has an empty web.xml file.Do i need to specify anything in the web.xml to access only the form.html.

Thanks,
Anila

[Ben Souther]

No but your spelling of WEB-INF incorrectly (you're using an underscore).

[Ramaswamy Srinivasan]

Hi,

Place the html file under Tomcat's WebApps folder directly and try calling it from web browser using the following URL,
http:localhost:8080/form.html

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If you want to call the file with the following URL
http:localhost:8080/DirName/form.html
you have to create a Web project with J2EE specified web application structure ,
read "Web application structure and deployment for J2EE applications" for more info.

Regards
Sanjiv

[Ray Stojonic]

Originally posted by Ramaswamy Srinivasan:
Place the html file under Tomcat's WebApps folder directly and try calling it from web browser using the following URL,
http:localhost:8080/form.html

Not quite. Even the server root path is a context. It is contained in, no surprise, webapps/ROOT.