Sorry, I'm not following you. What "pattern" are you referring to? 

Again, this app (and the html FORM/POST snippet I included) has worked
under Forte and VAJ in the past. And I've looked at other Tomcat examples
that look very much like what I'm doing, eg.
http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2001/04/19/tomcat.html


At 01:15 PM 11/21/2001 -0800, you wrote:
>Your pattern does not occur in your post.  So, the pattern will not send the
>post to the servlet.  If you make your post "anything" and make your pattern
>"anything", that will work.  Get my drift?  The post is just some text that
>should match the pattern and that will then refer the app to your servlet.
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Date: Wednesday, November 21, 2001 12:39 PM
>Subject: TC 4.0 newbie - servlet app won't run
>
>
>>I installed Tomcat 4.0.1 under Win 2k using JDK 1.3 and able to run the
>>example servlets, but not my own.  My html displays and I can execute my
>>JSPs, but a POST to a servlet does not work (this app has run under Forte
>>and VA Java in the past).   I get a 404 error with "the requested resource
>>(/myservlet) is not available". Since the examples work, I have to assume
>>it's something in my configuration. Any help figuring out why the servlet
>>won't run would be *greatly* appreciated.  I suspect it's something
>>simple/braindead on my part.
>>
>>
>>o  My directory structure for the app:
>>   TomcatHome
>>        |
>>        +--webapps
>>              |
>>              +--myapp\.jsp, .html .gif
>>                 |
>>                 +--WEB-INF\web.xml
>>                       |
>>                       +--classes\.class files
>>
>>
>>o  My html POST stmt. I've tried various path prefixes to myservlet, eg
>>   "classes/myservlet".  As with the Tomcat examples, this servlet has no
>>   package:
>>
>>    <FORM ACTION="/myservlet" method="POST">
>>
>>
>>o  My web.xml - I know Tomcat's seeing/parsing this because if I
>deliberately
>>   make a typo I get an error upon startup:
>>
>>     <?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>
>>       <!-- Define servlets that are included in the application -->
>>       <servlet>
>>           <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
>>           <servlet-class>myservlet</servlet-class>
>>       </servlet>
>>       <servlet-mapping>
>>           <servlet-name>myservlet</servlet-name>
>>           <url-pattern>/classes</url-pattern>
>>       </servlet-mapping>
>>    </web-app>
>>
>>
>>o  Update to server.xml
>>
>>   <Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" debug="0">
>>       <Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
>>               prefix="myapp_log." suffix=".txt"
>>               timestamp="true"/>
>>   </Context>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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