Take the 2-minute tour ×  After building APPS.war with the
Tomcat stock server.xml, I copied the WAR to
$TOMCAT_HOME/webapps.  After I started Tomcat, the WAR exploded,
but then, when I navigate to h_ttp://localhost:8080/APPS/, I get
a 404 error.  Any ideas?  share|improve this question What is
shown in the logs? –  Larry Shatzer Mar 1 '13 at 22:08 Also
check you have welcome-file-list filled out in the web.xml – 
Larry Shatzer Mar 1 '13 at 22:16 add comment  1 Answer  Edit
web.xml to include   where index.jsp is your default page.
Otherwise you have to navigate through to the page directly.
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