Unable to get Struts2 Hello World to work using Eclipse and Maven

Question

This site doesn\'t allow user to ask technical questions to their tutorial which I believe is broken:

http://www.mkyong.com/misc/how-to-use-mkyong-tutorial/

Answer 1

If you follow the tutorial, which is linked to the page Struts 2 Hello World Example, and done everything till p. 7 then you should Run it as is written

In Struts2, you can access the action class directly with a suffix of .action.

http://localhost:8080/Struts2Example/User/Login.action

If you tried to access application as

http://localhost:8080/Struts2Example

you will get a message and 404 error code is returned to the browser.

WARNING: Could not find action or result There is no Action mapped for namespace [/] and action name [] associated with context path [/Struts2Example]. - [unknown location]

The workaround is to add the file to the web root folder that will redirect a browser to the correct location.

index.html:

    



Loading ...

Also modify web application deployment descriptor to include this file name to the welcome files list.

web.xml:

    index.html

That's it, if you are looking for the Hello World tutorial, you should use these references:

• Hello World
• Hello World Using Struts 2
• How To Create A Struts 2 Web Application
• Create Struts 2 Web Application Using Maven To Manage Artifacts and To Build The Application