title: websphere: requested url was not found on this server
body: <p>I am developing my first web application with EJB, JSF and JPA. I use rational developer for developement and test, and our server is an iSeries with websphere 8. I do not have access to the test and production server, i can only manage the one I locally installed for developement purpose.</p>
  
  <p>So now, my web application is working perfectly on my local installation, but I can't make it work on the production or test server. I produce the EAR with Rational Developer, our sysadmin publishes it on the server, the logs show no error (everything seems fine), but when I then try to reach the application via browser, i get the message </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>404 not found: requested url was not found on this server</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>In locale, i have the application installed under </p>
  
  <pre><code>http://localhost:9080/&lt;contextroot&gt;/pages/login.jsf
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I tried several different urls but I always get that error message:</p>
  
  <pre><code>http://&lt;production_server_url&gt;/&lt;contextroot&gt;/pages/login.jsf
  http://&lt;production_server_url&gt;:80/&lt;contextroot&gt;/pages/login.jsf
  http://&lt;production_server_url&gt;:9080/&lt;contextroot&gt;/pages/login.jsf
  http://&lt;production_server_url&gt;/&lt;contextroot&gt;/
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I asked the sysadmin to send me the screenshots of the steps he goes through when installing the app on the server to see if there was some difference in the configuration, but everything is the same. The contextroot is correct.</p>
  
  <p>We have other web applications that run on the servers, but those are simple .war files, this is the first EAR we try to deploy (i.e. as such, websphere incapuslates war files into ear projects in order to run them)</p>
  
  <p>We have no idea what to do, can anyone help?</p>
  
  <p>What bothers me the most is that the deploy itself goes well, the app is installed and running, I just cannot reach it</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>