In Tomcat 7, I want my welcome page (index.html) to load when I access

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In Tomcat 7, I want my welcome page (index.html) to load when I access

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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.