trying to start a tomcat from eclipse and it failed to find index.jsp

Question

type Status report

message /mydirectory/index.jsp

description The requested resource (/mydirectory/index.jsp) is not available.

What could be the issue?

Here is the log file:

Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.tomcat.util.digester.SetPropertiesRule begin WARNING: [SetPropertiesRule]{Server/Service/Engine/Host/Context} Setting property 'source' to 'org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:Testing' did not find a matching property. Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin;.;C:\Windows\Sun\Java\bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin/client;C:/Program Files/Java/jre6/bin;C:\Windows\system32;C:\Windows;C:\Windows\System32\Wbem;C:\Program Files\Intel\DMIX;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\DLLShared\;C:\Program Files\Common Files\Roxio Shared\10.0\DLLShared\;c:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\90\Tools\binn\;C:\Program Files\QuickTime\QTSystem\;C:\Program Files\TortoiseSVN\bin;C:\Program Files\SlikSvn\bin\;C:\Program Files\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.1\bin;C:\Sun\SDK\bin Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol init INFO: Initializing Coyote HTTP/1.1 on http-8080 Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina load INFO: Initialization processed in 447 ms Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService start INFO: Starting service Catalina Jul 28, 2009 6:16:25 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine start INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/6.0.20

Answer 1

What is your project structure? Check index.jsp should be present in your projects webroot.

Answer 2

If you're using Eclipse 3.4 or 3.5 -- look at the Servers view in Eclipse. Against your server, you should see "Started" and "Synchronized". If it tells you to restart or republish, right-click on your server and do so.

Deploy your file again (you can drag your index.jsp file on to the server). Does it start this time?

If not, something could be wrong with your web.xml. Open the Console view and look at the server log -- do you notice any exceptions etc? You will need to resolve those.

Answer 3

First of all, check your server plug-in configuration: When Tomcat within Eclipse publishes you Dynamic Web Project, all embedded tomcat useful files (conf, code, work) are stored in this following location:

<path_to_workspace>\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp[0-9]

Check the deployment architecture, if you need more help regarding tomcat files architecture, see tomcat documentation