Thread: Help with JSP and Servlets

Hello, im new to java and to the forum. I'm trying to do a website with java JSP. I have setup tomcat and mysql to run from netbeans. my index.html is located in Wep Pages folder, and my JSP are in WEB-INF and my java code and servelts are in source package folder. My problem is here in my index.html

<form method=post action="website.Register">
Select user name: <input type="text" name="user"><br>
Specify your age: <input type="text" name="age">
<input type="submit" value="Register"
</form>

i'm trying to access the Register java servlet with the post action but when i open it in my browers and click on the link it says:

HTTP Status 404 - /website.Register

type Status report

message /website.Register

description The requested resource (/website.Register) is not available.

Is there anything else i should do?? or configure? Thank you for yyour replies .

I assume your Register servlet is in a package named website? Depending upon how you've configured the url in the web.xml, there should be no need to specify the package name (you should however specify the .war name that your servlet is located in - if the default url configured in the web.xml is something like '/Register').

yes my servlet is in a package website, but sorry i'm real new to java and even worse to html, this is my first java/website implementation because i have only worked with java files before. So what lines should i type in the web.xml file because i havent edit that file, is just as netbeans created.

I don't use netbeans, but am guessing by default the url of the servlet is set to root (eg '/Register'), so try accessing the servlet like:
'/nameofwar/Register'
where nameofwar is the name of the package .war file containing the servlet.

I did but still no luck, maybe there is another way to do this without using netbeans?

<url-pattern>/miami</url-pattern>

The above line indicates the url may be specified a bit differently...try:
/nameofwar/miami

but the name of war is the same as project, so it will be miami/miami??

Did you try it?

First of all is this the fully qualified package and class name?

<servlet-class>Register</servlet-class>

Second, this is just fine

<url-pattern>/miami</url-pattern>

The above url pattern means that the link to the servlet will be this

http://yourdomain.tld/yourappname/miami

Are you seeing any errors when you hit the link other than 404 or do you see anything in catalina.out/tomcat log files?

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