posted 2 years ago
I just needed the Message, not the picture, but now I know.
Most likely, then, the entire webapp cannot be found. For Tomcat to be able to locate a webapp (and its resources), the webapp must be constructed in the form of a WAR and made visible to Tomcat. The simplest way to deploy, then, is to create a WAR file and copy it into the TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ directory. If your WAR file is named "PlantPlaces.war", then Tomcat would find it, unzip ("explode") it to create a TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/PlantPlaces directory subtree, and resolve any URLs send to http://localhost:8080/PlantPlaces. There are several alternate ways to deploy WARs as well, but this is the simplest. Note that upper/lower case in both filenames and URLs is critical. You can't name a WAR "plantplaces" and expect to find it at http://localhost:8080/PlantPlaces, nor the reverse. Windows users can find this especially confusing, since Windows itself doesn't care about upper/lower case in filename, but Java does.
I'm going to be a "small government" candidate. I'll be the government. Just me. No one else.