My First JSP Page on macOS

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∟My First JSP Page on macOS

This section provides a tutorial example on how to create the first JSP page with JSP code to test the JSP support of the Tomcat Web server on macOS systems.

The next thing I need to test is to create a Web page with JSP (JavaServer Page) code.

1. Create a text file called hello.jsp with the following JSP code:

<html><body>
<% out.println("Hello world! -- From JSP"); %>
</body></html>

2. Save this JSP file to my application directory. Make sure that it has "read" permission for all users.

# cp hello.jsp /Library/Tomcat/apache-tomcat-9.0.26/webapps/herong/hello.jsp

3. Run a Web browser with this URL: http://localhost:8080/herong/hello.jsp. You should see the "Hello world! -- From JSP" message in the browser.

Congratulations again! Now, I have confirmed that Tomcat server is running as a Web server that supports JSP pages on my local macOS system:

Name your JSP files with the .jsp extension like, some-page.jsp.
Save your JSP files to an application directory, /usr/share/tomcat/webapps/herong/some-page.jsp, to serve it as a JSP page.
Visit your JSP page with the base URL and file name like, http://localhost:8080/herong/some-page.jsp.