Thanks for the info. However, I am new to tomcat and servlets and as such am still somewhat unclear as to the resolution to this problem. Can you clarify. What exactly is servlet - mapping?
Thanks, D -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bill Barker Sent: Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:06 PM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: Re: 404 message when trying to test a servlet "Dean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Greetings, > > > > I suspect the class file may be in the wrong directory. I get the message > /basic-servlet/servlet/CurrencyConverter , which is confusing in that the > class file is in the following directory C:\Program Files\Apache Software > Foundation\Tomcat 4.1\webapps\basic-servlet\WEB-INF\classes. The html > page > is being found ok but when I do a submit and it tries to bring up the > servlet I get the above. > The invoker servlet has been disabled in the default config for ages (because it is evil :). You can enable it at your own risk in conf/web.xml, but that isn't recommended. Use an explicit servlet-mapping instead. Having classes in the default package will prevent you from upgrading later on. You really should put your class in a package. > > > I really appreciate any help you can give. > > > > P.s. when I start tomcat I only get the following messages > > Starting service Tomcat-Standalone > > Apache Tomcat/4.1.36-LE-jdk14 > > > > I am able to access http://localhost:8080/index.jsp > > > > Sincerely, > > > > D > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]