Help with running servlet with jakarta tomcat

Question

I had recently created a couple of java servlets and wanted to run them. I had put the .class files in Tomcat 4.1\webapps\Root\ then typed in http://localhost:8080/ then the servlet in the web browser. Here was the error page copied and pasted. If I put http://localhost:8080/servlet.class instead of http://localhost:8080/servlet I get a popup saying do I want to download the .class file. Theres probley a simple solution to this. Anyone know of any free hosts that will host servlets for free?
HTTP Status 404 - /servlet
type Status report
message /servlet
description The requested resource (/servlet) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/4.1.18
Thanks in advance
George

Answer 1

Hi I have the compiler jdk1.1.8 and wanted to upgrade my version. I downloaded the j2sdk1.4.1_01. I have the classpath set and everything. When I attempt to compile my java servlet it gives me an error but when I compile it with jdk1.1.8 it works.
Isn't jakarta-tomcat-3.2.3 different compared the the one I have jakarta-tomcat4.1.18? Anyway thats what I read somewhere. The instructions you gave me do you think they are different because of us having different verions? I don't know if this is normal but whenever I startup my computer it just automaticly starts up tomcat server so when I put http://localhost:8080 it goes to the page saying I setup tomcat successfully. When I try to shutdown it doesn't do it.
About the classpath. I thought i'm supposed to only put one path. So if I were to do that it would look like path set TOMCAT_HOME=C:\jdk1.1.8\Program Files\Apache Group\Tomcat 4.1 Thats how I would set it on my computer. I already installed and ran tomcat. I think your right I need to check the documentation correctly.
Thanks in advance
George