The requested resource is not available. Servlet to JSP

Question

When i run my Mavenproject in Eclipse on the index.jsp it opens it. Than i am trying to open my AdressServlet trough /EnterAddress here i get the error.

Index.jsp:

<html>
<body>
<h2>Welcome</h2>
<p> 
We are going to get started with some question. 
First we will need some information about you.
</p>
<a href="/EnterAddress">Start</a>
</body>
</html>

AddressServlet:

package Servlet;

import java.io.IOException;

import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebInitParam;
import javax.servlet.annotation.WebServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.*;

import Bean.SurveyBean;
import Service.SurveyService;
@WebServlet(value = "/EnterAddress", initParams = {
          @WebInitParam(name = "addressPage",
                value = "/WEB-INF/pages/Address.jsp"),
          @WebInitParam(name = "QuestionURL", value = "Question") })
public class AddressServlet extends HttpServlet {
    /**
     * 
     */
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

    @Override
    public void init() throws ServletException{
        super.init();
        }

    @Override
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        SurveyBean bean = new SurveyBean();
           HttpSession sess = req.getSession();
           sess.setAttribute("surveyBean", bean);
           resp.sendRedirect("/pages/Address.jsp");
    }

    @Override
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp) throws ServletException, IOException {
        HttpSession sess = req.getSession();
           SurveyBean bean = (SurveyBean) sess.getAttribute("surveyBean");
           bean.setName(req.getParameter("name"));
           bean.setStreet(req.getParameter("street"));
           bean.setNumber(req.getParameter("number"));
           bean.setZipcode(req.getParameter("zipcode"));
           bean.setCity(req.getParameter("city"));
           bean.setEmail(req.getParameter("email"));
           sess.setAttribute("surveyBean", bean);
    }





}

web.xml:

<!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>
  <display-name>Archetype Created Web Application</display-name>
</web-app>

Address.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!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=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

<form method="POST">
Name: <input type="text" name="name"/>
Street: <input type="text" name="street"/>
Number: <input type="text" name="number"/>
Zipcode: <input type="text" name="zipcode"/>
email: <input type="text" name="email"/>
<input type="submit" value="OK"/>
</form>

</body>
</html>

I have no idea why i get the error. I don't get a error on index.jsp. But when i press Start on de jsp i get the error

When i do the things edited by BalusC It still doesn't work i have no idee what i am doing wrong or how i can fix it

@BalusC when i do the things on the link you posted i still cant open myn /EnterAddress — Dylan Gomes, May 25 '16 at 07:39

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered May 24 '16 at 16:32

First, Here are a couple of things to keep in mind:
Any jsp files under WEB-INF cannot be directly accessed by typing something like localhost:8080/WEB-INF/foo.jsp on the browser.
The servlet can access them.

Here are something you need to do

Replace your web.xml Doctype tag with the following:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
     xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee http://xmlns.jcp.org/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_3_1.xsd"
     version="3.1">

The above change makes sure that annotation will work for your servlet. This may not be a direct problem because I do not know if you can access the servlet or not, returning 404 can be caused by not finding the jsp as well.

Using response.sendRedirect() is the same as typing the jsp url on the browser which will not get the resource because the resource is under WEB-INF. Also the path WEB-INF is not even included in your url.
You will need to forward to the jsp in your servlet like so:
```
RequestDispatcher dispatcher = getServletContext().getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/pages/Address.jsp");
dispatcher.forward(request, response);  
```

I know you cant access it by just typing it but its when i press the link, or when i run the address jsp in my eclipse. When i replace the web.xml i cant even run my index.jsp than when i place the normal back i can still run it. — Dylan Gomes, May 25 '16 at 07:32
Adding "/WEB-INF/something/" before "myown.jsp" worked for me too. — zookastos, Jul 25 '17 at 06:03

The requested resource is not available. Servlet to JSP

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