Cannot compile JSP pages in Tomcat 5.0.28

Question

Hi,
I'm new to Tomcat and this has been bothering me for days now.
I have (seemingly) correctly installed Tomcat v5.0.28 and am currently in the process of testing my environment with simple html/jsp pages.
My server starts up fine with no error messages.
Testing the server I can access the .html file fine, however I get a HTTP 404 error for the .jsp: The requested resource (/hello/hello.jsp) is not availableI have done the following since installation:
1. Installed Tomcat to C:\Program Files\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.282. Set the environment variable JAVA_HOME to the value C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0 (base directory of my java installation)
3. Even added ;C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.5.0\bin to the environment variable Path (just in case, for javac)
4. Enabled the invoker sevlet by uncommenting:
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>
          org.apache.catalina.servlets.InvokerServlet
        </servlet-class>
    </servlet>and
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>invoker</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/servlet/*</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>in conf/web.xml
5. Added an access log valve to locahost
6. Set ant fork compiles to seperate JVMs:
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>jsp</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet</servlet-class>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>fork</param-name>
            <param-value>true</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <init-param>
            <param-name>xpoweredBy</param-name>
            <param-value>false</param-value>
        </init-param>
        <load-on-startup>3</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>6. Installed the .html and .jsp pages to folder %CATALINA_HOME%/webapps/ROOT/helloNow when I bin/startup.bat Tomcat starts without anu error messges. In a browser I can now access http://localhost:8080 and http://localhost:8080/hello/hello.html but not http://localhost:8080/hello/hello.jspHere are my logfiles (in debug mode) for performing the above actions and then shutting down:
catalina_log.txt
2006-04-29 18:29:02 EngineConfig: EngineConfig: Processing START
2006-04-29 18:29:24 EngineConfig: EngineConfig: Processing STOPlocalhost_log.txt
2006-04-29 18:29:01 StandardContext[/balancer]org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter: init(): ruleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.RuleChain: [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.URLStringMatchRule: Target string: News / Redirect URL: http://www.cnn.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.RequestParameterRule: Target param name: paramName / Target param value: paramValue / Redirect URL: http://www.yahoo.com], [org.apache.webapp.balancer.rules.AcceptEverythingRule: Redirect URL: http://jakarta.apache.org]]
2006-04-29 18:29:01 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2006-04-29 18:29:01 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()
2006-04-29 18:29:02 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2006-04-29 18:29:02 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@14eaec9')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@b533b8')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@569c60')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextDestroyed()
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: contextDestroyed()
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@d67067')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@6db724')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: attributeReplaced('org.apache.catalina.WELCOME_FILES', '[Ljava.lang.String;@112da40')
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextDestroyed()
2006-04-29 18:29:24 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: contextDestroyed()localhost_access_log.txt
127.0.0.1 - - [29/Apr/2006:18:29:13 +0930] "GET /hello/hello.html HTTP/1.1" 304 -
127.0.0.1 - - [29/Apr/2006:18:29:19 +0930] "GET /hello/hello.jsp HTTP/1.1" 404 1000Also, my sourced test .html and .jsp files:
hello.html
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!--
Simple HTML file to test server setup and configuration.
Taken from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages 2nd Edition
from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
http://www.coreservlets.com/.
(C) 2003 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
-->
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>HTML Test</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FDF5E6">
<H1>HTML Test</H1>
Hello.
</BODY></HTML>hello.jsp
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<!--
Simple JSP file to test server setup and configuration.
Taken from Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages 2nd Edition
from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press,
http://www.coreservlets.com/.
(C) 2003 Marty Hall; may be freely used or adapted.
-->
<HTML>
<HEAD><TITLE>JSP Test</TITLE></HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FDF5E6">
<H1>JSP Test</H1>
Time: <%= new java.util.Date() %>
</BODY></HTML>I am getting so frustrated I feel like I have tried everything...

Answer 1

Thanks for your feedback, I tried all suggestions but still no luck.
One thing I didn't mention previously was I have also tried the following (note: I have omitted the prefix "%CATALINA_HOME%/webapps"
to all directory references below):
1. installed my .jsp directly into /ROOT
2. installed my .jsp into subdirectory /ROOT/hello
3. installed my .jsp into /root_copy (identified as a running application by Tomcat manager)
I think there must a problem in my deployment because the JSP examples (http://localhost:8080/jsp-examples/) compile fine...
This indicates that JAVA_HOME is set correctly.
Since my first post I tried installing tomcat from a windows installer into c:\apache\tomcat5.0.28\ and set logging to debug.
Here's a small dump of 5 logs in localhost_log.2006-05-01.txt:
2006-05-01 20:08:31 StandardContext[/balancer]org.apache.webapp.balancer.BalancerFilter]...
2006-05-01 20:08:32 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2006-05-01 20:08:32 StandardContext[/jsp-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()
2006-05-01 20:08:32 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]ContextListener: contextInitialized()
2006-05-01 20:08:32 StandardContext[/servlets-examples]SessionListener: contextInitialized()Note there was no initialization of the context root_copy, but I'm unsure if there's any relevance here or not.