[plug] Re: Java servlets with tomcat application server

[David Buddrige]

Further, to my last email, I am running this software under Redhat Linux 
7.2.  The version of Tomcat is 4.0.3 (It came with the OReilly's "Learning 
Java" book. 

thanks all in advance. 8-) 

regards 

David. 

David Buddrige writes: 

> Hi all,  
> 
> I have written the attached [very] basic servlet.  I am now attempting to 
> run it using the TomCat application server.  I have placed the 
> HelloClient.war in the webapps/ directory of the jakarta-tomcat program, 
> and re-started the tomcat server by running the bin/shutdown.sh followed 
> by the bin/startup.sh scripts. However when I go to 
> http://localhost:8080/HelloClient, an error page is displayed rather than 
> the output of the HelloClient program.  
> 
> Do you know anything about how tomcat works, and why it might not be 
> working?  
> 
> thanks  
> 
> David.