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Asked: 2026-05-24T03:14:46+00:00

I was trying to test servlet by hosting it on shared hosting by GoDaddy

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I was trying to test servlet by hosting it on shared hosting by GoDaddy server. I am compiling the code using Java SDK 5_0_22(The SDK version of GoDaddy server). I tested same code,folder structure, on LOCAL Tomcat5.0.27(The server verision of Godaddy).

But I am able to run JSP file; this proves that my account is JAVA enabled.Please help.
P.S. Every time am getting 404 error.index.jsp is working fine.

FolderStructure:-

WebApplication–|
                          
|-META-INF
                          
|-WEB-INF—|
                                               |-classes–|–test.class
                                               |-web.xml

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app version="2.4" xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd">
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>test</servlet-class>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>
            30
        </session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
        </welcome-file-list>
    </web-app>

test.java

/*
 * To change this template, choose Tools | Templates
 * and open the template in the editor.
 */


import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.PrintWriter;
import javax.servlet.ServletException;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletRequest;
import javax.servlet.http.HttpServletResponse;

/**
 *
 * @author SAM
 */
public class test extends HttpServlet {

    /** 
     * Processes requests for both HTTP <code>GET</code> and <code>POST</code> methods.
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected void processRequest(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        response.setContentType("text/html;charset=UTF-8");
        PrintWriter out = response.getWriter();
        try {
            // TODO output your page here
            out.println("<html>");
            out.println("<head>");
            out.println("<title>Servlet test</title>");  
            out.println("</head>");
            out.println("<body>");
            out.println("<h1>Servlet test at " + request.getContextPath () + "</h1>");
            out.println("</body>");
            out.println("</html>");

        } finally { 
            out.close();
        }
    } 

    // <editor-fold defaultstate="collapsed" desc="HttpServlet methods. Click on the + sign on the left to edit the code.">
    /** 
     * Handles the HTTP <code>GET</code> method.
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected void doGet(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    } 

    /** 
     * Handles the HTTP <code>POST</code> method.
     * @param request servlet request
     * @param response servlet response
     * @throws ServletException if a servlet-specific error occurs
     * @throws IOException if an I/O error occurs
     */
    protected void doPost(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
    throws ServletException, IOException {
        processRequest(request, response);
    }

    /** 
     * Returns a short description of the servlet.
     * @return a String containing servlet description
     */
    public String getServletInfo() {
        return "Short description";
    }// </editor-fold>

}
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  1. Editorial Team

    Running packageless servlets doesn’t work in all circumstances. Classes in the default package are by specification invisible/unimportable to classes in a real package. As far as I know, only certain Tomcat + JVM + Windows version combinations allows for that. But you should never rely on that environmental dependency. You should always put your servlets (preferably also all other Java classes!) in a package.

    package com.example;

// ...

public class TestServlet extends HttpServlet {

    // ...

}

    The compiled class should end up in /WEB-INF/classes/com/example/TestServlet.class and the servlet mapping should be updated as follows:

    <servlet>
    <servlet-name>testServlet</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>com.example.TestServlet</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>testServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>

    Also note that I fixed your classname to start with uppercase conform Java naming conventions.

    Unrelated to the concrete problem, I know that you’re just beginning with servlets and that your servlet is just a dummy test example. I would only stress that emitting HTML inside a servlet that way is considered a bad practice. JSPs should be used for that. See also our servlet wiki page.

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