On Tue, Feb 18, 2020, 14:12 Thad Humphries <thad.humphr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am trying to understand how to build and run an app from local with > Tomcat 9 embedded using Java 8. I've started with this example written for > Tomcat 7: > > https://www.oracle.com/webfolder/technetwork/tutorials/obe/java/basic_app_embedded_tomcat/basic_app-tomcat-embedded.html#overview > > I am able to get it to run with Tomcat 9 after a few changes to the pom.xml > and one addition to the main() method: > > public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { > String contextPath = "" ; > May not be the issue, cause there's other code to consider, but should the above line be String contextPath = "/" ; In the future, you should also check the full stack trace for clues String appBase = "."; > Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat(); > tomcat.setPort(Integer.valueOf(PORT.orElse("8888") )); > // next line added for Tomcat 9 > tomcat.setConnector(tomcat.getConnector()); > > tomcat.setHostname(HOSTNAME.orElse("localhost")); > tomcat.getHost().setAppBase(appBase); > tomcat.addWebapp(contextPath, appBase); > tomcat.start(); > tomcat.getServer().await(); > } > > However although this runs it returns a 404 on /employee. Why? > > I've tried variations on other Tomcat 9 examples (such as > https://nkonev.name/post/101). There main() methods are considerably more > involved, and I don't follow all that's going on. I've had no success. Some > don't run, or, in the nkonev example earlier, JSPs aren't processed > (probably because of "tomcat.setAddDefaultWebXmlToWebapp(false);" but if I > commnent that out, the Jar won't run). > > What's the minimum to get the above main() to serve /employee? > >
