How to run a jsp page

Question

hello to all of u
i m bit comfortable with SERVLET and please tell me that how to run a JSP page.i m using TOMCAT.
someplace it is written that " write the program ,save under the root of tomcat i.e in my system it is tomcat 4.1 and to store in tomcat4.1\helloworld.jsp ,,, and then after start the server write in the url --:
http://localhost:8080/hello.jsp.
but it is giving error while running.please tell me the procedure.
thank you
bye

Answer 1

Why oh WHY do you want to fiddle with the server.xml file?
You don't need to.
Under tomcat is a directory called "Webapps"
This is where you put your web applications.
You will see there is an existing one there called ROOT - which funnily enough is the root one used for Tomcat.
If you put your hello.jsp in the ROOT directory, http://localhost:8080/hello.jsp will work.
However it is not recommended to use the ROOT directory. Make your own one.
Create a new directory in the "Webapps" directory eg "test"
Put your jsps in here.
under test create a directory called "WEB-INF"
Copy the web.xml file from [TOMCAT_HOME]/webapps/ROOT/web-inf into the new web-inf directory.
Now go to http://localhost:8080/test/hello.jsp
Cheers,
evnafets