Can ne one help me in installing STRUTS on Tomcat 4.1 web server

Question

Can ne one help me in installing STRUTS on Tomcat 4.1 web server.
I haven't started yet.. Please Help me.
Thanx in Advance.
Regards,
Ashutosh Sharma

Answer 1

first try to get a file "struts-blank-1.3.8.war" from internet...
before that we need to get certain jar files from net .. as these wud be necessary for the struts deployment on our tomcat
antlr-2.7.2.jar
bsf-2.3.0.jar
commons-beanutils-1.7.0.jar
commons-chain-1.1.jar
commons-digester-1.8.jar
commons-fileupload-1.1.1.jar
commons-io-1.1.jar
commons-logging-1.0.4.jar
commons-validator-1.3.1.jar
jstl-1.0.2.jar
oro-2.0.8.jar
standard-1.0.2.jar
struts-core-1.3.8.jar
struts-el-1.3.8.jar
struts-extras-1.3.8.jar
struts-faces-1.3.8.jar
struts-mailreader-dao-1.3.8.jar
struts-scripting-1.3.8.jar
struts-taglib-1.3.8.jar
struts-tiles-1.3.8.jar
if u download struts 1.3.8.zip then u'll get all the files + with in the apps folder u'll get the war files that have some
examples
eg:-
struts-blank-1.3.8.war
struts-cookbook-1.3.8.war
struts-el-example-1.3.8.war
struts-examples-1.3.8.war
and so on..... u mite get these files with some books ....... these war files contain the examples that u can run
******************* HOW TO DEPLOY STRUTS ON TOMCAT WEB SERVER ( I am Using apache-tomcat-5.5.25 ) ***********************
copy all the .jar files that are present in the lib folder of the struts kit to the "\common\lib" folder of
apache-tomcat-5.5.25
Note that in Environment Variable CLASSPATH must be specified to lib folder of the tomcat than only these files will work
Now copy the "struts-blank-1.3.8.war" file from the "apps" directory that will contain many ".war" files to "\webapps" folder
of tomcat.
now shutdown and then restart the tomcat webserver, now in the "webapps" folder u can see a folder as "struts-blank-1.3.8"
now open Internet Explorer or any other Web Browser that ur using and type in
http://localhost:8080/struts-blank-1.3.8
if the page is coming showing u a welcome message it means struts are running fine
Friends this mite be useful for all the beginners.. as i am a beginner so i know the problems that can come to start..
Regards,
Ashutosh Sharma