Problems getting servlets to work on Tomcat 4

I am having problems getting servlets to work on my host server.

I am using apache/tomcat 3 as my development server and the host is using apache/tomcat 4.

They have setup tomcat to pick up servlets in the following folder

www.drumpellier.com/public_html/jserv

I have tried putting a simple HelloWorld servlet in

http://www.drumpellier.com/public_h...EB-INF/classes/

folder which worked fine, but when I upload the my files to the server I cant get any servlets to work.

I am hitting a servlet called Controller from the following link.

http://www.drumpellier.com/jserv/se...ller?HsMethod=1

Which then produces the following error

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HTTP Status 404 - /jserv/servlet/com.golfclub.Controller

With the description as:

description The requested resource (/jserv/servlet/com.golfclub.Controller) is not available

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The servlet is in the following folder:

http://www.drumpellier.com/public_h...ontroller.class

and the web.xml is in the following folder

http://www.drumpellier.com/public_h...WEB-INF/web.xml

the web.xml referring to this servlet is as follows

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
<servlet>
<servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>com.golfclub.Controller</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/com.golfclub.Controller</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

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I just want to make sure that everything I have done is correct.

I think the host may not be picking up the com, golfclub, folders, but I’m not sure.

Would it be better to create a war file and put it in the classes folder?

Any help greatly appreciated as Im totally stuck!

Craig

You can only request servlets by class if the server has an InvokerServlet loading. Some do, some don't. The InvokerServlet allows you to request servlets by using the convention. Since that is how you are requesting it, maybe theirs does not have this InvokerServlet enabled.

However, you should not need it. You have a url mapping specified in the web.xml. You should be able to request the servlet using the url

assuming 'jserv' is the context root they have you set up under. You could change the url for this servlet to

by changing the web.xml to read:

HTH