Just can't run HELLOWORLD servlet on Tomcat!

Question

Hi there, I worked with servlets all summer long and now I'm getting back to build one, and I'm totally confused... My problem's there :
I try to run a simple HelloWorld servlet on Tomcat 4.1, and I get a 404 Error - Not found
Well, here's the structure of my web application, contained in simpleservlet.war :
WEB-APP
-web.xml
-CLASSES
-servlet.class
-LIB
-servlet.jar
Here's now the content of the web.xml file :
<web-app>
     <servlet>
          <servlet-name>serv</servlet-name>
          <servlet-class>servlet</servlet-class>
     </servlet>
     <servlet-mapping>
          <servlet-name>serv</servlet-name>
          <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
     </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>
AND FINALLY here's how I invoke my servlet, I TRIED :
http://localhost:1977/servlet/test
AND ALSO
http://localhost:1977/test
AND BANG, I GET "ERROR 404 - NOT FOUND"
A little help would be appreciated A LOT, well it's not supposed to be a hard problem... and by the way, I'm using port :1977, the problem's not there though.
regards, Pierre

Answer 1

Hi,
First try http://localhost:1977 and see if you are getting Tomcat. As you said, this is not a problem. So, you should get the index.html of the Tomcat. Now, click on the one of the example. From the Address Bar, you will know the path of this example. Try putting your page at that location and then run.
This should work.
-- Ashish.