invalid servlet URI in jboss2.4 & tomcat4.0.1

[fbastian]

When deploying an unpackaged web application using the combined jboss 2.4.4 & tomcat 4.0.1, i get error 404 when trying to load URIs other than the index.html page. The same application works fine if I package it as a war file.

For development, it is much faster if I can use the unpackaged version. However, when I copy the unpackaged application to jboss/deploy I can only access the URI http://localhost:8080/auditor/ . Anything else, say for example http://localhost:8080/auditor/viewData.html returns a 404 error.

I believe the "auditor" directory to be correct because if I package it with "jar cvf auditor.war *" and copy the resulting auditor.war file to jboss/deploy it works fine. I do have a WEB-INF directory, web.xml, and all classes and libs required by my application. I also notice the request does not even get to the servlet as if to say that tomcat does not recognise the URI so it returns 404.

All in all in points to a configuration issue with the combined jboss & tomcat. I searched the archives with no luck. I also created the ".war" file in jboss/deploy containing the standard catalina/ROOT application as some people suggested.

Any pointers on how I could solve this?

[rndgatewaynet]

did you try

% pwd
/../auditor
% cd ..
% jar cvf auditor.war auditor
??
Also note that in the jboss3.0b bundle that
comes with tomcat 4.0.2
the .war must be renamed to ..war

[fbastian]

I am trying not to use a .war file. It works fine when I package the appl into a auditor.war file.

Where it doesn't work is when I place the application unpackaged in the jboss/deploy directory. That is, just copy the auditor subdirectory to jboss/deploy.

i am using jboss 2.4.4 and tomcat 4.0.1

[adrianw]

I have the same problem as fbastian. Deploy a WAR works fine. But deploying an upacked application does not work, I get a 404.

Doing exactly the same thing with exactly the same code in a standalone catalina works fine.

It seems that catalina with jboss doesn't know how to create a context automatically in the same way as standalone catalina does.

Any ideas on how to investigate this?

[johnnycannuk]

Did you try renaming your directory to auditor.war?

A little trick that just might work...

Mike