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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?

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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
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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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