I am trying just to run a servlet on my local Tomcat with Eclipse.
But I keep getting this error and do not have any idea what to do differently.
I actually recorded it here : http://www.screenr.com/ZyD8
Many thanks!
Also I changed the web.xml to this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:web="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
id="WebApp_ID"
version="3.0"
xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" >
<display-name>
TEST3
</display-name>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>
TEST3
</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
helloServlet
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
HelloServlet
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>
helloServlet
</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>
/hello
</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
I have seen your link.
When ever you run any dynamic web project. By default Servlet
container (which is Tomcat in this case) searches for files specified in wel-come list. Check your web.xml
, it should contains entry like
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>default.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
You haven't created file from any of the above list. So, running
http://localhost:8080/TEST2
will give you 404 error.
Rather run : http://localhost:8080/TEST2/HelloSerlvet
will invoke the servlet which you have created.
Edit: Check Project Menu of eclipse and verify "Build Automatically" is checked and Servlet container is running (http://localhost:8080
).
Edit 2: Right Click Project --> Properties, Select Java Build Path --> source Tab --> Change Default output folder. Create /WEB-INF/classes
under /WebContent
(default in eclipse)