Tomcat Servlet deployment problem

Hello,
I am not too familar with Apache, so I am going to try to describe my
problem as clear as possible, but I may leave out something critical
due to my lack of experience with Apache. If I do please let me know.

I have a servlet that we coded and tested using JRun 3. We didn't
have any issue with it in our testing environment, and it worked as
planned. When we used the same servlet in a Tomcat 4 environment, on
a Windows 2000 server, we cannot get the server to start.

We put the file in a sub-directory of the web-inf folder, and with the
new file, the web server will not start. There are other servlets
within this subdirectory that the server starts and runs normally.
When we added this new servlet, we had the problem of the server not
being able to start.

Is there a specific configuration that you have to set when adding a
servlet? We added the servlet and mapping entries to the web.xml
file, but that is the only configuration that we did. Also any
suggestions on how to go about diagnosing where the Tomcat server is
failing during startup would be helpful as well. I really don't know
where to begin with diagnosing the server startup problem.

Thanks

Greg wrote:

 > Is there a specific configuration that you have to set when adding a
 > servlet? We added the servlet and mapping entries to the web.xml
 > file, but that is the only configuration that we did. Also any
 > suggestions on how to go about diagnosing where the Tomcat server is
 > failing during startup would be helpful as well. I really don't know
 > where to begin with diagnosing the server startup problem.

Sounds to me like you need to use the invoker servlet, which was
disabled for security reasons starting with 4.1.12 (I *think*). See
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://tomcatfaq.sourceforge.net" target="_blank">http://tomcatfaq.sourceforge.net</a> for more info.

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