Question

In my Spring app, I have the following:

@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "/")
public String goHome(ModelMap map){
    map.addAttribute("content", "home.jsp");
    return "index";
}


@RequestMapping(method = RequestMethod.GET, value = "register")
public String getRegisterPage(ModelMap map){
    map.addAttribute("content", "register.jsp");
    return "index";
}

On localhost, I can access them as localhost:8080 and localhost:8080/register respectively. But when I deploy them on third party server, domain.com works fine but domain.com/register (and every other links other than domain.com) result in a 404.

Not Found

The requested URL /register was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Note:
– Both localhost and domain.com run on Tomcat 5.5 and has Servlet version 2.4
– I even changed RequestMapping value to value=”/register” but nothing changed

web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-app id="WebApp_ID" 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">
    <display-name>Adsense</display-name>
  <listener>
    <listener-class>com.adsense.connection.MySqlDBPooling</listener-class>
  </listener>
  <servlet>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
    <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
  </servlet>
  <servlet-mapping>
    <servlet-name>spring</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
</web-app>

Thanks for help

Answer 1

Got my answer here: Tomcat 404 Not Found error

The problem is that in the production environment tomcat is being
fronted by an apache httpd which does not forward requests to tomcat
for urls of the form /foobar (without an extension). Apache doesn’t
know how to deal with those URLs and tries to serve them as static
files from the disk. The files are not there so it tries to execute
the 404 rule which is badly configured (the configured 404 file is
itself missing as well – but that’s another problem).

Solutions:

Assign an extension to all your servlets and specify that to apache.
E.g .do (like struts does) so your servlet becomes /foobar.do. You’ll
then need to ask your sysadmin to specify that *.do goes to tomcat.
Ask your sysadmin to configure apache to send all requests to tomcat
apart of those for static files. E.g *.jpg, *.png, *.css, *.js etc

In my case, it worked fine with urls like /register.do 🙂