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On 9/5/2012 8:36 PM, ruds wrote:
> the URL for my webapp is: http://localhost:8080/FIR/login.jsp
> the URL which it gets directed to should be: http://localhost:8080/FIR/CheckLogin
> but it is going at: http://localhost:8080/CheckLogin
>


Yup, c.f. Fredrik's reply: the "action" from the form needs to either be 
/FIR/CheckLogin, or it needs to be a relative URL -- "CheckLogin" with 
no slash in front.

Your missing the context path, in other words, which is easy for newbies 
to trip on.