From Tomcat to Iplanet6

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Hello All,
To start with my problem is, I cannot get my servlet ("helloworld" servlet not a hi-fi one) to work on Iplanet. Even though I could make it to run on Tomcat5.0.12. This is what I did in tomcat :-
I made a simple "HelloWorld.java" file which is a servlet. Compiled it and placed it in
"C:\jakarta-tomcat-5.0.12\webapps\ROOT\WEB-INF\classes" directory.
And I could access my servlet with an URL, "http:\\localhost\servlet\HelloWorld".
I was happy. So I took the next step, as I had to develop the application which is supposed to run on Iplanet. I thought of doing the same with Iplanet.
So I read the documentation on Iplanet. Where it says, I can deploy my web apps through WAR filesand its way of doing things. So
I turned back to my PC, created a directory heirarchy with files as
C:
..|----HelloWorld
...........|-------------index.html (a simple file with a welcome msg)
...........|
...........|-------------WEB-INF(directory)
...................................|------------web.xml(file --- I will give the contents of my web.xml below)
...................................|------------classes(dir)
...................................|...................|---------------HelloWorld.class
...................................|------------lib(dir - empty dir, but I still made it to stick to principles)
The contents of my "web.xml" file are :-
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2
ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
.....<servlet>
............<servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
............<servlet-class>HelloWorld</servlet-class>
.....</servlet>
.....<servlet-mapping>
..............<servlet-name>HelloWorld</servlet-name>
..............<url-pattern>/HelloWorld</url-pattern>
.....</servlet-mapping>
.....<welcome-file-list>
..............<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
.....</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
Next I made a war file of all these files, so that I could get it to Iplanet and deploy it on Iplanet.
So the first thing I did on iplanet was create a test directory, "samalTst1" under which I deployed the war file. And it infact gave me a msg saying webapp successfully deployed. And I did check the contents of "samalTst1" directory. It had the same directory structure as I have given above with one more directory added parellelly to "WEB-INF", called "META-INF" ,which I think is normal as the jar application does it for you.
Now after deploying my war file when I try to access the servlet on Iplanet by prividing this URL,
"http://myunixbox/samalTst1/HelloWorld" -> it says file not found.
where as if I just say ->
"http://myunixbox/samalTst1" -> it displays the welcome file i.e. index.html.
neither does this url work,
"http://myunixbox/HelloWorld" -> it also says file not found.
-----------Now my questions are
1. Where am I going wrong or what am I missing ? (I checked the web-apps.xml file, there is an entry for the war I am trying to deploy and the URI is set to "samalTst1", So is my naming convention wrong, should I name the directory in unix where I am trying to deploy my webapp also "HelloWorld", well I tried that, that also didn't help.)
2. Is there any online document which would guide me through deploying my first test servlet on Iplanet?
( Because the accompanying Iplanet documentation is not very helpful , in the sense, they just come up with magic words in there documentation which I totally could not comprehend.)
Any help or suggestion would be greatly appreciated.
-Samal:)

Answer 1

Folks,
......... I wanted to add one more thing,. That is I could get the servlet to work in the default virtual (legacy) server in Iplanet. So if you are suggesting me to try that option, I have already tried that:). I wanted to know how I could get it work with virrtual webservers.
-Samal