Getting servlets to work in the directory you want

Question

Ok, I've searched for a few hours and spent more time that I should with Tomcat, and I'm sure others have asked similar questions, but I'm still unable to solve a simple problem:
I installed Tomcat (4.0.4), edited the path (common/lib) and classpath (servlet.jar).
JSP files work beautifully, as do the example servlets. Even when I created a servlet and put it into /webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes/myServlet it worked well. But when I tried to create my own directory, i.e. /webapps/ROOT/my-directory/WEB-INF/classes/myServlet I keep getting the 404 error of death.
I tried to add a context line to the server.xml file, but Tomcat will not restart properly. Is there a special place within the file to add it? Or is there something else I'm missing?
Am I correct in saying that you EITHER put a line into the classpath OR server.xml? I tried the line in the classpath with no success. Or is it something to do with web.xml - I played with it but again no success.
Thanks,
Dan
PS I AM aware you must call the servlet file by using "servlet/myServlet"

Answer 1

Well damn, after re-installing Tomcat 4.0.4 and doing it all again, it worked! Thanks to both of you for your help!
SO maybe for others (or for myself when I forget later) I did the following:
1. Installed Tomcat 4.0.4 in C:\Tomcat
2. Set the classpath:
.;C:\Tomcat\common\lib\tools.jar;C:\Tomcat\common\lib\servlet.jar;%Classpath%;
3. Set the path: C:\Tomcat\common\lib
4. Set CATALINA_HOME=C:\Tomcat
5. Put my jsp,html files in /webapps/my-directory, created WEB-INF/classes and put the servlet classes in there
6. Added the context in server.xml: <Context path="/my-directory" docBase="my-directory" debug="0" privileged="true" reloadable="true" />
7. Added the web.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>
Test
</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>
Test
</servlet-class>
</servlet>
</web-app>
That's it! I hope I didn't miss anything...but it worked for me with a little help from my friends.
PS I really think there should be better instructions... I consider myself a fairly good java developer, but getting this s@#! to work took too long ;)
Dan