Google App Engine HTTP Error 403 - google-app-engine

Question

I am trying to write a simple Google App Engine application. I am following this tutorial:
https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/gettingstarted/creating, however I cannot make it working.
When testing on the localhost, I receive:
HTTP ERROR 403
Problem accessing /. Reason:
FORBIDDEN
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This is my application code:
package test;
import java.io.IOException;
import javax.servlet.http.*;
public class Test extends HttpServlet {
private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;
public void doGet(HttpServletRequest req, HttpServletResponse resp)
throws IOException {
resp.setContentType("text/plain");
resp.getWriter().println("Hello, world");
}
}
My web.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC
"-//Oracle Corporation//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
"http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" version="2.5">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>test.Test</servlet-class>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>test</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/test</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
</web-app>
My appengine-web.xml file:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<appengine-web-app xmlns="http://appengine.google.com/ns/1.0">
<application>halocline-test</application>
<version>10</version>
<!--
Allows App Engine to send multiple requests to one instance in parallel:
-->
<threadsafe>true</threadsafe>
<!-- Configure java.util.logging -->
<system-properties>
<property name="java.util.logging.config.file" value="WEB-INF/logging.properties"/>
</system-properties>
<!--
HTTP Sessions are disabled by default. To enable HTTP sessions specify:
<sessions-enabled>true</sessions-enabled>
It's possible to reduce request latency by configuring your application to
asynchronously write HTTP session data to the datastore:
<async-session-persistence enabled="true" />
With this feature enabled, there is a very small chance your app will see
stale session data. For details, see
http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/appconfig.html#Enabling_Sessions
-->
</appengine-web-app>
Console output:
Jul 06, 2012 2:42:34 PM com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.JettyLogger info
INFO: Logging to JettyLogger(null) via com.google.apphosting.utils.jetty.JettyLogger
Jul 06, 2012 2:42:35 PM com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AppEngineWebXmlReader readAppEngineWebXml
INFO: Successfully processed C:\Users\Halocline\workspace\Test\war\WEB-INF/appengine-web.xml
Jul 06, 2012 2:42:35 PM com.google.apphosting.utils.config.AbstractConfigXmlReader readConfigXml
INFO: Successfully processed C:\Users\Halocline\workspace\Test\war\WEB-INF/web.xml
Jul 06, 2012 3:42:36 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl start
INFO: The server is running at http://localhost:8888/
Jul 06, 2012 3:42:36 PM com.google.appengine.tools.development.DevAppServerImpl start
INFO: The admin console is running at http://localhost:8888/_ah/admin
No errors are shown in the console when I open localhost:8888 in my web browser.
Any idea what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

You servlet is mapped to http://localhost:8888/test

Answer 2

I believe you might have your index.html file in a wrong directory. Check it did not accidentally slip under WEB-INF. It should be directly under war.