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Heres what you need to do

Posted by Jay on November 07, 2001 at 8:36 AM

You have got the Context right. But have you registered the servlet in web.xml? If not, register this way:

<servlet>
<servlet-name>myServlet</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>ClassFileName</servlet-class>
</servlet>

Servlet-name is how you want to access the servlet and servlet-class is the actual class file name.

Note that thats this is what the servlet specification says.

You can not get rid of the entire "http://localhost:8080". You need to tell the browser which machine to make connection to right? So in your server.xml search for

      <Connector className="org.apache.tomcat.service.PoolTcpConnector"> 
            <Parameter name="handler" 
                value="org.apache.tomcat.service.http.HttpConnectionHandler"/> 
            <Parameter name="port" 
                value="8081"/> 
        </Connector> 

and change 8081 (or what ever you have there) to 80.

This means you have to access your servlet using the URL "http://localhost:80/inquiry/servlet/myservletfilename". But as 80 is the default http port, you can just say:
"http://localhost/inquiry/servlet/myservletfilename".

Name your webserver and you could use that name instead of "localhost"

-Jay.