I am trying to a servlet based application to work

Question

I keep getting this error

HTTP ERROR: 404 Not Found RequestURI=/WEB_INF/account

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my properties is follows projectx.webserver.contextpath=/ projectx.webserver.webapp=/opt/ProjectX/webapps/xxx

my web.xml is as follows

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>account</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.xxx.projectx.wui.servlet.AccountServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>

my directory tree is as follows /opt/ProjectX/webapps/xxx/WEB-INF

classes web.xml

the classes dir contains

/opt/ProjectX/webapps/xxx/WEB-INF/classes/com/xxx/projectx/wui/servlet/ AccountServlet.class

and my JSP that calls the servlet in question is as follows

<form method="post" action="/WEB_INF/account" name="account">

I have tried /account,/servlet/account

I would really appreciate some help on getting this to work

Answer 1

Should be configured

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

Hope to help you!

Answer 2

A servlet must have a servlet-mapping with it,like this:

<servlet>
    <servlet-name>account</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.xxx.projectx.wui.servlet.AccountServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>account</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/account.do</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

And your form should be

<form method="post" action="account.do" name="account">