Old Tomcat VS New installations

Question

Hi,
Long time ago I setup Tomcat Server and it was working 100% fine.
Today I wanted to review JSP and Tomcat server so after stopping the IIS and startup the Tomcat server I entered the URL:
http://localhost/hello.jsp but I got 404 Error?! and the same thing for my other jsp files I made long time ago.
I checked the old settings I made long time ago :ClassPath,Path,Java_Home,... every thing looks correct.
The only possible different I think is that I installed new programs like:
Java EE 5 SDK (I uninstalled the Java Application server I had before install it)
Visual Studio 2008
PHP 5.3.1 vc9 for IIS using Fast CGI extention
However since every thing I made long time ago looks correct and was working I don't know what to do? I spent 3 hours at least trying to fix it but it is no use.
Hope that you can help me...

Answer 1

Garg_Ankit wrote:
nalkaff wrote:
I always deploy my applications to folders other than the Root (wwwroot).I only have in the Root two simple PHP pages in a folder and one unimportant asp.net website I may delete it.I think you are playing with too many technologies, which is mixing things up in your mind. wwwroot is related to IIS, so I'm not concerned with that. Tomcat is supposed to run JavaEE, so if you have PHP or asp.net pages in tomcat, you shouldn't expect them to be executed. What I want to know is how are you expecting http://localhost/hello.jsp to return you a page if you don't have any application deployed on ROOT. As you said using the URL http://localhost/ renders the default tomcat welcome page, that means that your application is deployed on some context path (you can put your JSP pages in ROOT directory of tomcat, but I don't know if you have done that). So the URL that you need to use is http://localhost/<context path>/hello.jsp where <context path> would generally be the name of the folder of your application in the webapps folder of tomcat. So if you have a directory structure like $Tomcat_installation_dir/webapps/myapp/hello.jsp, then the URL in the browser would be http://localhost/myapp/hello.jsp ...
'O' sorry for my silly mistake I was confused between the too roots in my post may be because I didn't drink my tea that night.However as you said the .jsp page has nothing to do with the IIS root.But I found it placed correctly in the Tomcat webapps\Root folder and not inside any folder so the path should be [http://localhost/hello.jsp].
and [http://localhost/] display the Tomcat Welcome page.
Other applications I have in that folder (Tomcat Root) are only 4 somple JSP pages since I didn't make any JSP project for my work or such things...
One of them read from SQL database using JDBC.
Is there any thing I should check to fix up this problem other than the ClassPath and Java_Home variables?
As I mentioned the error appears as following:
HTTP Status 404 - /hello.jsp
type Status report
message /hello.jsp
description The requested resource (/hello.jsp) is not available.
Apache Tomcat/6.0.10
About the log file looks not interested for me..It has the following:
28/12/2009 03:34:48 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextInitialized()
28/12/2009 03:34:48 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextInitialized()
28/12/2009 03:34:48 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.catalina.Registry', ['org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.Registry@109fd93'|mailto:'org.apache.tomcat.util.modeler.Registry@109fd93'])
28/12/2009 03:34:48 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: attributeAdded('org.apache.catalina.MBeanServer', ['com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer@e6ff0d'|mailto:'com.sun.jmx.mbeanserver.JmxMBeanServer@e6ff0d'])
28/12/2009 03:46:46 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: SessionListener: contextDestroyed()
28/12/2009 03:46:46 &#1589; org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log
INFO: ContextListener: contextDestroyed()
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