why my link have "//" instead of "/"

[Davie Lin]

I am sorry, I am really frustrated, in my HelloPage.jsp

I have ">Register Here

and in my struts.xml

  <package name="Pay_Roll" namespace="/Pay_Roll/Action" extends="struts-default">  

when I start the app, Tomcat console gives me namespace "//Pay_Roll"

why the extra / I really don't get it, what did I do wrong?

Please help

[Nishan Patel]

Hi,

Please see just remove "/" from Pay_Roll.

Like : <package name="Pay_Roll" namespace="Pay_Roll/Action" extends="struts-default">

[Davie Lin]

I tried that before, no luck. thanks for reading my post

[Nishan Patel]

Hi,

Then can you please check your web.xml


it might looks like this..

<filter-mapping>
<filter-name>struts2</filter-name>
<url-pattern>/*</url-pattern>
</filter-mapping>

Please make sure it.

[Davie Lin]

Thanks for responding so quickly

here is what my web.xml looks like

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?> 
<web-app id="WebApp_9" version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
 <display-name>Pay_Roll</display-name> 
 <filter>
  <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> 
  <filter-class>org.apache.struts2.dispatcher.FilterDispatcher</filter-class> 
  </filter>
 <filter-mapping>
  <filter-name>struts2</filter-name> 
  <url-pattern>/*</url-pattern> 
  </filter-mapping>
 <welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>/Pay_Roll/HelloPage.jsp</welcome-file> 
  </welcome-file-list>
 </web-app>  

Does that look correct? what should I change?
I thought because the link contain two "/" that's causing the HTTP 404 error
but even if I remove the extra "/" it still give me the Action not mapped to Register.action

I know that my struts.xml is in /WEB-INF/ and should be /WEB-INF/classes
but I can't figure out how I can change my build.xml so that when Ant builds War file to place struts.xml in the right directory.
The only thing I can think of to do is to redo the entire project since it's not a big project yet.

thanks again

[Nishan Patel]

Hi

Why you write in your wel-come file with Package name it just shows simple like this

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/index.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

Remove /Pay_Roll

And for your 404 error

<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/index.htm</location>
</error-page>

[Davie Lin]

really? but that's where the welcome file is located

if I remove "Pay_Roll" and just have

<welcome-file>/HelloPage.jsp<welcome-file>

well work?

sorry, haven't have time to try that since you reply so quickly

I never know the <error-page> tag
what does it do and where does it needs to be, my guess is web.xml

but I don't see how that solve the problem since Tomcat is having problem finding the action
that the request is asking

thanks

[Nishan Patel]

Hi,

Forgot about your <welcome-file>/HelloPage.jsp<welcome-file> .

Just make one action "index" at your struts.xml like others action you have declared.

from this index action just include your /HelloPage.jsp on success result type like.

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>/index.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>


And if you still want to list your /HelloPage.jsp then put this jsp at your Webroot directory.

[David Newton]

Your struts.xml is in WEB-INF? That won't work unless you configure S2 to look for it there.

It'd be better if you fix your environment to work right.

[Davie Lin]

Thanks Mr. Newton
but I am new to Struts 2
when you say S2 you mean Struts 2 right

I am guessing my struts.xml is the problem why I am getting HTTP 404 Action not mapped correctly

should I redo the project (which is not too bad because it's not huge)
or rewrite the build.xml so struts.xml will be in /WEB-INF/classes?

I am using Eclipse but it won't show the /WEB-INF/classes on the left side,
how do I fix my environment? can you give me some directions?
what are my best options?

thanks for reading my problem, I really appreciated

[David Newton]

If you're using Eclipse put the struts.xml file in the src directory and it will deploy it to WEB-INF/classes.

If you're using Ant then copy it to the right spot in the war or when you deploy.

You can also configure Struts to look in a non-default location, but it's probably a better idea to keep it on the classpath.

[Davie Lin]

Mr. Newton

When you say Using Ant and copy it to the right directory in <war>

my guess is you do the copy operation inside the <war></war>
Here is the the <war> part in my build.xml

  <target name="war">
        <war destfile="${war.file.name}" webxml="./WEB-INF/web.xml">
             <fileset dir="./" includes="**/*.*" excludes="*.war, **/*.nbattrs, web.xml, build.xml"/>
             <webinf  dir="./WEB-INF"    includes="**/*" excludes="web.xml, **/*.jar, **/*.class"/>
             <lib     dir="./WEB-INF/lib"/>
             <classes dir="${build.dir}">
             	<include name="struts.xml" />	
             </classes>
        </war>
    </target>  

would I say insert a <copy> somewhere in <war></war> I am not quite exactly sure how that's done
can you give me a hint?

I try doing that in <classes></classes> but it didn't work, struts.xml still in /WEB-INF

is there any other tag beside <copy> that I can use in Ant? that will move struts.xml instead of copy it

I haven't have time to try the things you suggest yet but I will give it a shot soon, I will put struts.xml in src directory this time
if that doesn't work than I will also try leaving struts.xml in ${src.dir} so that way it ends up in /WEB-INF/classes

Thank you so much for your input, I really appreciated

[Davie Lin]

I follow Mr. Newton's suggestion and move the struts.xml in src folder
but it still not in the right directory, It's ok, I use <copy> before <war> to
relocate struts.xml into the /WEB-INF/classes directory.

so, than I am still having "//Pay_Roll" with the extra "/"

now I try to delete the extra "/" and it goes to the page I want
because my struts.xml is in the right place now

so I believe, maybe the problem is in my <welcome-file>
(not the web.xml, the entry in the <welcome-file> tag)
which is my HelloPage.jsp

I have

  <a Register"/ rel="nofollow">">Register here</a>  

I think here is the problem with my <s:url> tag

can anyone tell me what I did wrong here?

thank you