Tomcat not picking the showing 404 on index.html

Question

i am new to the servelests and building a web application. When i create the new html file in myproejct under the web pages folder in netbeans and compilling that file it shows 404 error with following URL

http://localhost:8080/myproject/

but when i change this url to

http://localhost:8080/myproject/index.html

it shows the page..

and also when creating index.jsp instead of index.html and compile in netbeans it is shown in the browser

why this happen ????? any hint ??

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3976160/how-does-tomcat-find-the-home-page-of-my-web-app — lreeder, Mar 22 '14 at 19:15

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 22 '14 at 19:17

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Is your index.html under WEB-INF or WebContent?

It should be under WebContent folder and also map properly in your web.xml.

answered Mar 22 '14 at 19:17

RKC

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my document lies in the web folder. – Bhatti Mar 22 '14 at 19:18
Refer this link http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3976160/how-does-tomcat-find-the-home-page-of-my-web-app – RKC Mar 22 '14 at 19:19

Tomcat not picking the showing 404 on index.html

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