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Asked: 2026-06-03T08:42:29+00:00

I have a index.jsp file that has two different types of forms <form action=searchpath

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I have a index.jsp file that has two different types of forms

<form action="searchpath" name="searchForm" method="get">
<p>BedType</p>
   <select name="bedType">
     <jsp:include page="/WEB-INF/embeds/bedType.jsp"/>
   </select>
   <p>Max Price</p>
     <input size="10" maxlength="10" name="mPrice"/>
     <br/><br/>
     <input name="Reset" type="reset" value="RESET" class="input"/> <input type="submit" class="input" value="SUBMIT"/>
</form>

and

    <form action="loginController" method="post" id="loginForm">
        Please Login :<input name="username" size="30" maxlength="30"/> 
        Password : <input name="pass" type="password" size="30" maxlength="30"/>    
        <input type="submit" value="SUBMIT" class="input"/>
    </form>

I thought that the action field type directed to the web.xml <url-pattern>/searchpath</url-pattern> would allow me to direct whatever input information I place in those forms to the servlet of that path. That is, the first form will interact with my searchpath servlet. When I tried submitting a form and printing out information nothing seemed to work and I kept receiving a http 404 error . Can someone please help me out with this?

web.xml :

  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>Search</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/searchpath</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>

inside my search.java servlet :

protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response) throws ServletException, IOException {

    response.setContentType("text/html");
    PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
    out.println("<HTML>");
    out.println("<HEAD>");
    out.println("<TITLE>Static Servlet</TITLE>");
    out.println("</HEAD>");
    out.println("<BODY>");
    out.println("<h1>WTF</h1>");
        out.println("</BODY>");
    out.println("</HTML>");
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  1. Editorial Team

    Check browser URL. You are missing context.

    Let Say, You are running at http://localhost:8080/test/index.jsp where test is your context path.

    So, When calling Servlet It should be like http://localhost:8080/test/searchpath.

    In your case, Its not like that.

    So, Adding cotextpath will solve your problem.

    e.g. action="<%=request.getContextPath()%>/searchpath"

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