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HenkeL84
HenkeL84

Reputation: 51

Tomcat cannot find the jsp page I'm trying to forward to

I'm building an application and currently working on my login page. When I launch Tomcat it starts up fine and opens a browser which displays my index.jsp page to log in. However on successful log in I am not forwarded to the next jsp page as instructed in the login servlet, instead I get a 404 "The origin server did not find a current representation for the target resource or is not willing to disclose that one exists."

I have checked the web.xml I which looks fine, I'm using annotations to map servlets. I dont know what else to try. Even if I deliberately enter incorrect log in details I receive the same error rather than the output contained in the "else" statement.

@WebServlet("/Login")
public class Login extends HttpServlet {

    public void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws IOException, ServletException {
        String uname = request.getParameter("username");
        String pwd = request.getParameter("password");

        if (uname.equals("MyUsername") && pwd.equals("MyPassword")){
            RequestDispatcher dispatcher = request.getRequestDispatcher("/WEB-INF/welcome.jsp");
            dispatcher.forward(request, response);
        }else {
            PrintWriter writer = response.getWriter();
            writer.write("User details not recognised");
        }


    }

}

<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_4_0.xsd"
         version="4.0">
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>welcome.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

</web-app>

Upvotes: 5

Views: 1380

Answers (1)

dan1st
dan1st

Reputation: 16477

If you forward to /WEB-INF/welcome.jsp, the server looks for a file welcome.jsp inside a directory WEB-INF in your context root, that is the WEB-INF directory.

So, you should not forward to /WEB-INF/welcome.jsp, but to /welcome.jsp.

Anyway, WEB-INF is reserved and does not work, no matter where you redirect.

Upvotes: 2

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