Thank you Flip and Yoav for your help. That cleared up a lot of confusion.
I have used the empty web.xml listed below, restarted tomcat, and everything
was fine.
I then added some taglibs to the web.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
<web-app>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/c</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/c.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
<taglib>
<taglib-uri>http://jakarta.apache.org/taglibs/sql</taglib-uri>
<taglib-location>/WEB-INF/sql.tld</taglib-location>
</taglib>
</web-app>
When I restart Tomcat, I get a 404 error. Any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: Shapira, Yoav [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:20 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: RE: New User Web.xml question
Howdy,
You don't need to declare JSPs in your web.xml even though they really
are servlets, because there's a special servlet that serves JSP pages.
That servlet is declared and mapped in the master web.xml file located
in the $CATALINA_HOME/conf directory.
Start with a web.xml file that just has an empty webapp element:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd";>
<web-app>
</web-app>
Alternatively, you can use the basic web.xml provided in the tomcat
"First Webapp" guide:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/web.xml.txt
(In general, I suggest reading
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.0-doc/appdev/ before any of
your many printed books).
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:14 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: New User Web.xml question
>
>Windows Server 2k, Tomcat 4.1.
>
>I'm relatively new at building web applications. I'm ok with the
>programming, I've never learned how to make a web.xml file.
>
>I've gotten by on the invoker running all of my jsp pages. It's now
time
>to
>do things right. I have many books in front of me.
>NetBeans The Definitive Guide
>Tomcat Kick Start
>Apache Tomcat Bible
>Tomcat The Definitive Guide
>Web Development with JavaServer Pages
>CORE JSTL Mastering the JSP Standard Tag Library
>CORE Servlets and JavaServer Pages
>
>I still have no clue. I only write jsp pages, no servlets. I
understand
>that Tomcat converts this to a servlet. I understand that this servlet
is
>a
>class.
>
>The sample web.xml in the ROOT directory of webapps does not mention a
>class, yet the index page runs.
>
>The sample web.xml in the examples directory of webapps has lots of
filter
>and filter-mapping entries. I have only a vague idea of what they do.
>
>I have a few very simple webapps. 1 page to login, 1 page to search.
I
>would like to make a web.xml file for my webapps. Right now, whatever
I
>try
>I get a 404 error when I restart Tomcat, then I delete the web.xml I
made
>and everything is good again.
>
>Can someone give me a tip. If your webapp's root was
>\\webserver\www.company.com
><file:///\\webserver\www.company.com%20and%20you%20added%20test.jsp>
and
>you added test.jsp to that web app. What entry would you make in your
>web.xml file?
>
>Thanks in advance.
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