ok,
install tomcat,
jsps are workin,
made new context,
jsps are workin in it,
write a servlet(5 min),
try to get servlet working(5 hr),
read documentation,
it says put servlets in WEB-INF/classes dir, did that
it says add servlet to WEB-INF/web.xml, did that
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>servtest.class</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>servtest.class</servlet-class>
</servlet>
</web-app>
restart tomcat(can't believe this has to be done everytime a servlet
gets added or changed), did that
it says call your servlet with
"http://thehost/WEB-APP/servlet/theservletname";
did that
response: 404
there's no servlet directory, kinda makes sense, but i thought mod_jk
was taking care of that. HMM.
so now that i've followed the instructions and that didn't work, i make
a servlet directory and add my servlet there. web browser tries to
download and save it to my disk, no display.
i'm sure that this being a servlet engine, it would probably serve
servlets, otherwise that would be really embarrasing for the
programmers, so, anyone got any suggestions?
