HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource (/ProjectName/) is not available

eclipse jsp tomcat http-status-code-404 welcome-file
cProg picture cProg · Oct 17, 2011 · Viewed 82k times · Source

I'm getting the following error when running my Eclipse project on Tomcat server:

HTTP Status 404 - The requested resource (/ProjectName/) is not available.

The URL in browser's address bar is http://localhost:8080/ProjectName/.

I really don't know what is missing in my files. I have an Index.jsp in the /WebContent folder and my web.xml contains below entry:

<welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

Answer

BalusC picture BalusC · Oct 17, 2011

By default, when you open the project root folder as in http://localhost:8080/ProjectName/ instead of a physical file as in http://localhost:8080/ProjectName/Index.jsp, then the server will lookup for a welcome file in web.xml. If none is found, then you'll get this 404 "Page not found" error.

In your case, URLs and file names are case sensitive. You declared index.jsp to be the welcome file, but you mentioned that you've an Index.jsp. Rename it to index.jsp and then you'll be able to open the webapp's context root with the welcome file this way.

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