HTTP status - 404 Resource not found exception in JSP [duplicate]

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Question

I have been stuck up with running hello world program in JSP.When i start my server it showing resource not found exception. please help me to solve this problem. I have mentioned my code below

index.jsp:

<%@ page language="java" contentType="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1"
    pageEncoding="ISO-8859-1"%>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
<title>Insert title here</title>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
    id="WebApp_ID" version="2.5">
    <display-name>MySample</display-name>
    <welcome-file-list>

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

    </welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
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Solution

From comments above you had placed file in wrong folder.

Put your index.jsp file inside WebContent folder. Do not put in WEB-INF folder.

WebContent folder

  • The mandatory location of all Web resources, including HTML, JSP, graphic files, and so on.
  • If the files are not placed in this directory (or in a subdirectory structure under this directory), the files will not be available when the application is executed on a server.
  • The Web content folder represents the contents of the WAR file that will be deployed to the server. Any files not under the Web content folder are considered development-time resources (for example, .java files, .sql files, and .mif files), and are not deployed when the project is unit tested or published.

Reference

OTHER TIPS

Your Welcome index file should start with "/index.jsp" starting with slash if it is directly inside WebContent directory. If it is inside some dirctory like JSP it should be like /JSP/index.jsp

Your directory structure is important that where you have placed the file and provide that path to welcome-file. hope it helps

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