Uploaded File Not Saved

Question

hi
can anyone please tell me why the folowing uploaded file is not saved in the web app: (i am using tomcat 5)
the file is uploaded but never saved in the specified folder.
package com.kurdistanIT.globe.admin.web;
import com.kurdistanIT.globe.admin.model.*;
import javax.servlet.*;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.*;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.disk.*;
import org.apache.commons.fileupload.servlet.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.util.*;
public class UploadPDFServlet extends HttpServlet{
     public void doPost(HttpServletRequest req,HttpServletResponse res)
                                   throws ServletException,IOException{
          FileItemFactory factory = new DiskFileItemFactory();
          ServletFileUpload upload = new ServletFileUpload(factory);
          List items=null;
          byte[] pdf=null;
          String year=null;
          String month=null;
          String day=null;
          try{
               items = upload.parseRequest(req);
               Iterator it=items.iterator();
               while(it.hasNext()){
                    FileItem item=(FileItem)it.next();
                    String name=item.getFieldName();
                    if(name.equals("pdfFile")){
                         pdf=item.get();
          }catch(FileUploadException fue){
               System.out.println("Exeption thrown\n"+fue);
          String path=req.getContextPath();
          File file=new File(path+"PDFs/KurdishGlobe.pdf");
          FileOutputStream fos=new FileOutputStream(file);
          fos.write(pdf);
          fos.flush();
          fos.close();
          res.sendRedirect("/Globe/PDFs/KurdishGlobe.pdf");
many thanks
akz

Answer 1

String path=req.getContextPath();
File file=new File(path+"PDFs/KurdishGlobe.pdf");Does the getContextPath() method return a path that is terminated by a slash? Or are you concatenating "PDFs" to the last directory name in that path?
And does anything in that code throw an IOException? If it does, then your servlet will end abnormally, probably with a 500 error code.