Servlet is giving me HTTP Status 404 error

Question

I want to change the password changePassword.jsp:

<form name="ChangePasswordForm" method="post" action="ChangePasswordServlet">

<table id="t01" >
    <tbody class="ui-widget-content">
        <tr>
            <td>Employee ID</td>
            <td><input type="text" name="empid" value="<%=session.getAttribute("name")%>" readonly="readonly" required="required"/></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>Old Password</td>
        <td><input name="OldPassword" type="password" id="OLDpwd" required="required"></td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>NewPassword</td>
        <td><input name="newpassword" type="password" id="newpassword" required="required">
        </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
        <td>Confirm Password</td>
        <td><input name="conpassword" type="password" id="conpassword" required="required">
        </td>
        </tr>
        <tr>
    </tbody>
</table><br>

        <input type="submit" name="Submit" class="myButton"  value="Save">
        <input type="reset" class="myButton" value="Reset" />
        <a href="logout.jsp" class="myButton">Logout</a>

</form>

</body>

PasswordDao.java:

public class PasswordDao {

public static int Update(PasswordBean pb,String sql) throws Exception {

    int i=0;  
    PreparedStatement ps=null;
    Connection conn=ConnectionProvider.getConn();  
    try{ 
        ps = conn.prepareStatement(sql);

        ps.setString(1,pb.getNewpassword());
        ps.setString(2,pb.getEmpid());
        ps.setString(3,pb.getOldPassword());
        i=ps.executeUpdate();  
    }
    catch(Exception e){
        System.out.println(e);
    }
    finally { 
        if (conn != null) {  
            try {  
                conn.close();  
            } catch (SQLException e) {  
                e.printStackTrace();  
            }  
        }
        if (ps != null) {  
            try {  
                ps.close();  
            } catch (SQLException e) {  
                e.printStackTrace();  
            }  
        }  

    }  
    return i;  

}
}

ChangePasswordServlet.java

public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request,HttpServletResponse response)throws ServletException,IOException{
  response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
  PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();

  PasswordBean pb = new PasswordBean();
  String Emp_id=request.getParameter("empid");    
  pb.setEmpid(Emp_id);
  String Oldpwd=request.getParameter("OldPassword");   pb.setOldPassword(Oldpwd);
  String Newpwd=request.getParameter("newpassword"); pb.setNewpassword(Newpwd);

   HttpSession session = request.getSession(false); 

   try{if (Emp_id!=null){
        session.setAttribute("Emp_id",Emp_id);}
    }catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
    try{if (Oldpwd!=null){
        session.setAttribute("Oldpwd",Oldpwd);}
    }catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}
    try{if (Newpwd!=null){
        session.setAttribute("Newpwd",Newpwd);}
    }catch(Exception e){e.printStackTrace();}

   PasswordDao dao = new PasswordDao();
    String sql= "Update employee set Pwd= ? WHERE Emp_id=? and Pwd=?";

     try {

       int status = PasswordDao.Update(pb, sql);

    if(status!=0){
        out.print("<p style=\"color:Green\">Password Changed Successfully!!</p>");  
        RequestDispatcher rd=request.getRequestDispatcher("/changePassword.jsp");    
        rd.include(request,response);
    }
   else{    
        out.print("<p style=\"color:red\">**Password doesnot Change.. Try Again! **</p>");    
        RequestDispatcher rd=request.getRequestDispatcher("/changePassword.jsp");    
        rd.include(request,response);
    }

     }
   catch(Exception e){
       e.printStackTrace();
   }
}

I tried with the above code but its giving me HTTP Status 404 error. Its not giving any error in the netbeans to correct. please tell me how to solve it.

Please post also post your web.xml. And then, how about showing the details of the client's POST transaction which produces the 404 HTTP status. Use Firefox or WebKit (Chrome, Safari) browser's developer tools to show what happened. — David J. Liszewski, Nov 10 '15 at 09:53

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 10 '15 at 10:03

The 404 error is generated by the web server to indicate that a resource is not found. So, probably there is nothing wrong with the code you posted. Your problem here is that the server cannot map the request to an appropriate servlet.

Solution: Make sure you have the correct mapping in the web.xml

Example code:

<servlet>
  <servlet-name>ChangePasswordServlet</servlet-name>
  <servlet-path>foo.ChangePasswordServlet</servlet-path>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-name>ChangePasswordServlet</servlet-name>
  <url-pattern>/ChangePasswordServlet</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

yes... that was it... thanks for the quick response. I have changed the servlet name later and I forgot to change in web.xml — dpk, Nov 10 '15 at 10:13

Servlet is giving me HTTP Status 404 error

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