Running web.xml from Eclipse results in HTTP Status 404

Question

I'm working on Windows 7 with Eclipse Java EE IDE for Web Developers , and Tomcat 7 .

The hierarchy of my project is :

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When I run the following web.xml , meaning I hit CTRL+F11 from within Eclipse the following web.xml :

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_0.xsd" id="WebApp_ID" version="3.0">
  <display-name>LoginExample</display-name>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
  </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>

I get this :

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I don't understand what causes this , any idea anyone ?

Here is index.jsp :

<%@ page language="java" 
    contentType="text/html; charset=windows-1256"
    pageEncoding="windows-1256"
%>

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">

<html>
    <head>
                                <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1256">
        <title>Login Page</title>
    </head>

    <body>
        <form action="LoginServlet">

            Please enter your username      
            <input type="text" name="un"/><br>      

            Please enter your password
            <input type="text" name="pw"/>

            <input type="submit" value="submit">            

        </form>
    </body>
</html>

Thanks

Petr Mensik · Accepted Answer · 2013-11-03T11:20:30.227

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WEB-INF is a protected folder, servlet container (Tomcat in your case) won't allow you to access it. It would be quite bad if anybody could take a look on your web application settings (especially the security ones). Just go to the localhost:8080/LoginExample/index.jsp, then you can see your page.

edited Nov 03 '13 at 11:20

answered Nov 03 '13 at 11:12

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OK ,any suggestion what to do then ? – JAN Nov 03 '13 at 11:17

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 03 '13 at 11:17

You cannot access the the WEB-INF directory or any of its contents directly from a web application.

If you want to access the index.jsp page, just open the URL http://localhost:8080/LoginExample and the web server would forward you to the index.jsp (as specified in the web.xml)

Or you can always access the page directly using its full path as in http://localhost:8080/LoginExample/index.jsp

score 1 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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Try to change the path, instead of /WEB-INF/web.xml to /index.jsp, if this does not work try to resolve it, with servlet maping,something like this Servlet JSP web.xml.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:03

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answered Nov 03 '13 at 11:17

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Running web.xml from Eclipse results in HTTP Status 404

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