Servlet Access error

[pengpeng lin]

Hi,everybody.I want to ask a question about Servlet access.

I added a web app to the "webapps" directory and restart the Tomcat. When I type the URL:http://localhost:8080/helloapp/showpathtest it give me a 404 error.

Here is the configuration of server.xml and web.xml
<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<Context path="/helloapp" docBase="helloapp" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
<Host>

<servlet>
<servlet-name>showpathtest</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>mypack.ShowPathTest</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>showpathtest</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/showpathtest</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

and the ShowPathTest.class is under the WEB-INF/classes/mypack directory.


Can anybody help me! Thanks a lot

[pengpeng lin]

Can anybody help me? I'm new to Tomcat.

[Ben Souther]

Where did you put the servlet and servlet-mapping entries?
Hopefully in your web.xml file.
Where did you put your web.xml file?

You didn't need to edit server.xml.
Tomcat will automatically deploy apps that it finds in the webapps directory.