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I am a newbie in servlet programming.
The following is my sample servlet code
Sample.Java
public class Sample extends HttpServlet { protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse res) throws ServletException, IOException { res.setContentType("text/html"); PrintWriter pw=res.getWriter(); String name=req.getParameter("name");//will return value pw.println("Welcome "+name); pw.close(); } } Web.xml
<web-app> <servlet> <servlet-name>sampleservlet</servlet-name> <servlet-class>Sample</servlet-class> <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup> </servlet> <servlet-mapping> <servlet-name>sampleservlet</servlet-name> <url-pattern>/Sample</url-pattern> </servlet-mapping> </web-app> Index.html
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Untitled Document</title> </head> <body> <form action="Sample" method="get"> Enter your name<input type="text" name="name"><br> <input type="submit" value="login"> </form> </body> </html> My problem
When I right click on my project and then click Run as -> Run on server, I select the server, it asks me for to select a server and then I select the server to run. In the eclipse window a browser window is opened which has the address URL as http://localhost:8080/Sample/
When I click on login it gives me an error like this,
HTTP Status 404 - /Sample/welcome
type Status report
message /Sample/welcome
description The requested resource is not available.
Apache Tomcat/7.0.62
Screenshot
Why am I getting an error like this ?
Other details
Server:apache-tomcat-7.0.62 IDE: Eclipse Java EE kepler
Steps I tried to solve the problem
I tried these,
Result
I did not see the .class files in WEB-INF folder.
Result In this path "tomcat7\work\Catalina\localhost\your app",the work folder was empty.
Please let me know if I need to post any more details.
Directory structure from IDE