Submitting request to servlet

Question

Hello
I've a simple form:
<FORM ACTION="/thegreetings/servlet/GreetingServlet" METHOD="Post">
submitting to a servlet <HOME_TOMCAT>\webapp\thegreetings\WEB_INF\classes\GReetingServlet.class
Deployment descriptor is sitting at
<HOME_TOMCAT>\webapp\thegreetings\WEB_INF\web.xml
But whenever I submit the form I get 404 error of not finding the resource thgreetings\servlet\GreetingServlet
Can anyone help me on that ?
Thanks
AL

Answer 1

I had to add a line in the server.xml (or manager.xml depends on Tomcat version). Your line should look similar to this in the context manager:
<Context path="/thegreetings" docBase="C:\jakarta-tomcat-4.0.1\webapps\thegreetings" reloadable="true" />
The line : <FORM ACTION="/thegreetings/servlet/GreetingServlet" METHOD="Post">
should be :
ACTION="/thegreetings/GreetingServlet"
and web.xml should have the servlet mapping tag:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Registration</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>GreetingServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Registration</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/GreetingServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</servlet>