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How to map a Servlet to only the front page / root path of your webapplication

This post is about Java Web Servlets and will hopefully save you some hours of debugging. Prelude Rant I was naive enough to think that the reasonable URL pattern “/” would match only the root path of the application. Guess … Read more

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Suddenly unable to start Apache? Solution here

Prelude (skip to solution) Suddenly by seemingly no fault of my own I was unable to start Apache through the xampp control panel. I decided to investigate this further and ran apache_start.bat in cmd. This gave me the following output: … Read more

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