Hello World web site to test my W2K installation...

Question

.... has not worked.
I've created a directory d:/MyApp with a single file index.html and an
associated WEB-INF/web.xml:
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application
1.2//EN" "http://java.sun.com/j2ee/dtds/web-app_2_2.dtd">
<web-app>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
<error-page>
<error-code>404</error-code>
<location>/error.jsp</location>
</error-page>
</web-app>
I've added the following to my weblogic.properties:
weblogic.httpd.webApp.MyWeb=d:/MyWeb
weblogic.httpd.defaultWebApp=MyWeb
When I start the weblogic NT service and try to acces the page with
http://endor I get the following appear in weblogic.log:
Sun Dec 03 21:33:21 GMT+00:00 2000:<E> <HTTP> Could not find Web application
'MyWeb'
java.io.FileNotFoundException: Directory MyWeb\ does not contain
WEB-INF/web.xml
at
weblogic.servlet.internal.dd.DescriptorLoader.<init>(DescriptorLoader.java:2
00)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.loadWARContext(HttpServer.java:648)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.initServletContexts(HttpServer.java,
Compiled Code)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.HttpServer.start(HttpServer.java:442)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.start(T3Srvr.java, Compiled Code)
at weblogic.t3.srvr.T3Srvr.main(T3Srvr.java:825)
at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Native Method)
at weblogic.Server.startServerDynamically(Server.java:99)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:65)
at weblogic.Server.main(Server.java:55)
at weblogic.NTServiceHelper.run(NTServiceHelper.java:19)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:479)
I've tried a variety of locations for my MyWeb folder and properties
entries. I've also tried setting weblogic.system.listenPort=80 rather than
the default 7001.
I'm stuck. Can anyone suggest a remedy?
Thanks
MArtin

Answer 1

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