问题
In Tomcat 7, I want my welcome page (index.html) to load when I access localhost:8080/. Right now, I have to go to the webapp context, localhost:8080/MyWebApp.
Is there a folder in Tomcat to place pages that are not part of a webapp? I'm confused how this works...
EDIT: I notice that the web.xml for the Server in Eclipse has a servlet called "default" which is mapped to "/"... I wonder if I have to change something here?
EDIT2: I found this: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_override_the_default_home_page_loaded_by_Tomcat.3F
But, I already have an index.html in my ROOT folder, and still getting 404 from the root URL. If I start the server without using Eclipse, it works. What's going on here? What exactly does Eclipse do when you start the server through it? Obviously it's not reproducing the ROOT folder of my installation.
回答1:
You are missing ROOT folder from 'webapps' - maybe it was deleted during installation of the other app. ROOT folder has config files for 'Welcome' page for tomcat. You can copy it from the other tar file into ../webapps folder and you'll be good.
回答2:
Tomcat displays a page by default. Replace this with the page you want.
回答3:
In Apache Tomcat, all websites are deployed as individual web applications. You can verify this with the Tomcat configuration manager, where you are able to start/stop/reload certain web applications.
I believe you would like to place the welcome page in path tomcat/webapps/index.html - all files located here not in a webapp of subfolders should be viewable as the root of the url.
It's only anything above webapps in tomcat that's protected from web browsing. maybe you can try putting the file in index.html, and setup a link preceded by ../ to indicate "go a directory level above in the tree" to fetch this required file, or try listing the directory of the url root to see in which context you're in actually.
Hope this helps clarify something at least.
回答4:
Solved! http://wiki.eclipse.org/WTP_Tomcat_FAQ#If_I_start_my_Tomcat_server_and_try_to_display_Tomcat.27s_default_page.2C_why_do_I_see_a_directory_listing_or_404_error_page.3F
来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4824239/how-to-get-a-welcome-page-from-tomcat-root-rather-than-webapp-context