[SOLVED] http 404 error

ansrewdps · 02-04-2011, 04:50 PM

I've created a .html footer file with black background which should show up in the webpage.But when I access the page,the place(footer part) in the webpage where I should get a black background returns me a http 404 error code

HTTP Status 404- /footer/footer.html
type status report
message /footer/footer.html
description The requested resource (/footer/footer.html) is not availble).

So,is that something to do with the file access permissions that tomcat is failing to get??

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

anomie · 02-04-2011, 05:04 PM

The correct place to get an answer is your web server's error log. (Should be catalina.out in your case.)

ansrewdps · 02-04-2011, 05:36 PM

the tomcat version that's shipped with the product don't have the catalina.out in the log directory.Is there any other way I can debug the error?

smoker · 02-04-2011, 06:00 PM

Is the footer file contained within a folder called footer ?
If so, is that folder one under the level of the document root ?
Remember that /anything means in the document root ...

Unless the directory footer is in the folder /www/html/footer (or equivalent) then the path to that folder is wrong and 404 is a natural response. Don't look for problems where things are not in the correct place.

This isn't a tomcat error, it is a straight-forward apache error.

ansrewdps · 02-04-2011, 06:20 PM

I've the footer in the tomcat sub-directory that was shipped with the application. something like

/opt/..../tomcat/.../apps/footer/footer.html.

I've another html file(that came with the installation of the application) in the same directory as the footer.html which shows back in the browser.

Noway2 · 02-04-2011, 07:39 PM

Are the permissions and ownership (group and user) the same for both files?

ansrewdps · 02-05-2011, 10:07 AM

here is the ls -la output to the file I'm worried about

-rwxrwxrwx 1 rmaddali rmaddali 132 Feb 4 15:50 footer.html
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 721 Feb 4 16:04 l_footer.html

footer.html is the file I created and trying to embed that in the webpage,which inturn gets 404 problem.

l_footer.html is the application file which shows up in the webpage.

any ideas?

smoker · 02-05-2011, 02:48 PM

Have you tried copying the contents of footer.html to I_footer.html ?

ansrewdps · 02-05-2011, 07:57 PM

yes I tried that and it worked.However, the footer I need to work with is different from the l_footer

l_footer is just a one line display at the bottom of the webpage. Custom footer.html I need to implement is to replace the portion of the webpage.

so,is that something to do with the access permission??

smoker · 02-06-2011, 04:33 AM

Well if you give that file identical permissions as the I_footer file then you can find out.
Personally, I would imagine that tomcat only sees the I_footer file as the valid file to include. You could try renaming your footer to I_footer2.html and give it the same permissions as I_footer.html. But it is just easier to replace the contents of I_footer with the contents of your footer file.

anomie · 02-06-2011, 03:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ansrewdps

the tomcat version that's shipped with the product don't have the catalina.out in the log directory.Is there any other way I can debug the error?

Which log directory are you talking about? (The one under $CATALINA_HOME?)

And are you front-ending Tomcat with Apache web server? If so, this is simple - check Apache web server's error log. If not, we need to figure out where catalina.out is in your "custom" install.

ansrewdps · 02-08-2011, 11:48 AM

I solved it...

it should be the url of the file not the path to the file. this solved my problem

Thanks for the help..