Problem with JSP and Servlets..

Pinhead

I've got a page, form.jsp, which passes it's form values onto a Mail servlet. The servlet then (in theory) e-mails the values to a specified e-mail address. The directory structure for the web app is as follows:

+ [U]public_html[/U]
    * index.jsp
    * form.jsp
    + [U]WEB-INF[/U]
        + [U]classes[/U]
            + [U]com[/U]
                + [U]domain[/U]
                    + [U]serlvets[/U]
                        * MailServlet.class
        + [U]lib[/U]
            * mail.jar
            * activation.jar
        * web.xml

I figured I had the web.xml correct, but it seems to mess up the processing of every JSP page (I get Tomcat 404 errors, even after deleting it). As a result, none of my JSP pages are accessible now.

I'll list my web.xml contents in the next post. Could someone please help me with it? Also, in the "action" attribute of the form tag, what should I put? I haven't mapped servlets before.

Pinhead

WEB.XML:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee 

http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd"
    version="2.4">

    <display-name>Web site</display-name>
    <description>
      Yadda yadda
    </description>

    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>MailServlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>com.domain.servlets.MailServlet</servlet>
    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>MailServlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/MailServlet</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>

</web-app>

NotMe

action = "/MailServlet"

Pinhead

That's what I had. Still getting some lovely Tomcat errors though.

swiss

Have you included "public html" in the list of allowed web application folders in the server.xml file in the TOMCAT_HOME/conf directory?

What I mean is, assuming you have the public html directory in TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/, you would need to have the following code or something similar in the server.xml file to access this directory.

<Context path="/public html" docBase="public html" debug="0"
reloadable="true">

Also, I'm not sure if Tomcat likes spaces. Try renaming the public html directory to public_html if that fails.

Pinhead

I know how to set-up a context path- it works fine on my side of things. However, I'm trying to run it on an online server so I can't edit the server.xml file.

tempest

<servlet-class>com.domain.servlets.MailServlet</servlet>

+ classes
+ com
+ domain
+ serlvets
* MailServlet.class

Pinhead

If only it were that simple. That's not a server-side typo. It just applied to that post. *sigh*