getting 404 on request forwarding but typing url works

[navjeetc]

I have a servlet which forwards a request using RequestDispatcher's forward method (uses a relative url of /mypc/pclogin.jsp) and I get 404 with tomcat message saying:

type Status report

message /mypc/pclogin.jsp

description The requested resource (/mypc/pclogin.jsp) is not available.

The servlet url is:

http://kickball:8080/mypc/servlet/PCAuth

I am using jboss 2.4.6 and tomcat 4.0.3.

But if I type http://kickball:8080/mypc/pclogin.jsp, it works. Why is the forwarding thru servlet not working ?

--Navjeet

[hermit]

you should write the url without the context path because the server has known it. e.g. write getRequestDispatcher(/pclogin.jsp)