Help to adjust Tomcat 4.1.18

Question

Dear friends!
I have properly installed Tomcat 4.1.18 on my PC. When I run it I have default page index.jsp and can go through all examples - it works ok. Now I wish to try my own servlets but I can't find the place for class files.
In Tomcat documentation I read I have to place my classes into install_dir/webapps/ROOT/WEB_INF/classes, but there is no classes directory there.
Please tell me what place have I put my classes to make them visible for Tomcat.
Thank you,
Dmitry.

Answer 1

It depends, wether you use Tomcat as Standalone Server or with another Webserver. In general:
1. make a directory-structure "myWebApp/WEB-INF/classes",
2.put servlets, classes and beans etc. into the classes directory
3. make an entry like the following into the server.xml in install_dir/conf/
(between the <engine> tags, if you have already a host entry the <context> entry might be sufficient):
                  <Host name="myDomain" debug="0" appBase="/absolutePath to myWebApp" unpackWARs="true">
                     <Context path="" docBase="/absolutePath to myWebApp" debug="0" crossContext="true" />
                  </Host>3. if you use another webserver, you have to make shure that the url is redirected to Tomcat (httpd.conf for Apache)
4. restart Tomcat (always after editing server.xml)
5. the url for servlets is myDomain/servlet/servletName where servletName is the name of the servlet class without the .class ending