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From: John Turner <tomcat-user@johnturner.com>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 12:07:04 -0400
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The /examples web app, and most Tomcat books published before 4.1.12-ish 
were released use the Invoker servlet.  The Invoker is what lets you just 
put a servlet into a directory and call it.

This is disabled by default in more recent versions of Tomcat.  You have to 
explicitly declare every servlet in web.xml and map a URL to it, since 
using the Invoker is not recommended (security reasons).

http://tomcatfaq.sourceforge.net/miscellaneous.html

and more specifically

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=104327383710262&w=2

HTH

John

On Fri, 30 May 2003 12:00:08 -0400, John Collier <j6collier@earthlink.net> 
wrote:

> I am trying to work through some servlet examples from a book
> (Java for the Web with Servlets, JSP, and EJB) and am getting the
> dreaded "HTTP Status 404" message, i.e., "The requested resource
> (xxx) is not available."  This does not surprise me.  What concerns
> me is that I have no clue how to go about finding out what the problem
> actually is.
>
> My version of Tomcat is 4.1.24.  I am using JDK 1.4.1_02.  I'm
> not using an IDE or anything like that (though I would like to do
> so eventually).  I can access the Tomcat documentation via
> "localhost:8080" and run the various servlet and JSP examples included
> with Tomcat.  As far as I can tell, I have all of the toy servlet parts 
> in
> the right place, i.e., the directory structure appears to be correct, 
> there
> is a simple web.xml file present, the toy servlet class file is in the 
> right
> location, etc.  I'm not seeing any exceptions in any of the log files
> (had a couple early on due to a typo in the web.xml file).  I also added
> a little snippet of code to the toy servlet to open a disk file and write
> out
> an "I am alive" message, but that is not happening either, so I am 
> guessing
> that the servlet is never getting called.
>
> I'm guessing there has to be some sort of debug flag or setting that I 
> can
> use to see why this request is failing.  I've looked at the server.xml 
> file
> and can see a bunch of debug="0" statements.  Which one do I set
> and what do I set it to to see why my toy servlet won't run?  Where will
> the output appear?  I figure that if I can get Tomcat to tell me what it
> is doing, that would be the first clue as to what is wrong.
>
> Other suggestions about how to go about tracking down this kind of
> problem would be appreciated.  I expect to be encountering this situation
> rather frequently...
>
> Thanks,
> John Collier
>
>
>
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