Servlet not running in eclipse

[sinatra roger]

Hi,

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?

[Ulf Dittmer]

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).

[sinatra roger]

Sorry my mistake. It is inside the folder called web content. which now has META-INF,WEB-INF and NewFile.html

[Ulf Dittmer]

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.