title: cannot see apache tomcat homepage
body: <p>I installed apache tomcat and started the service by double clicking on apache-tomcat-8.0.9\bin\startup.bat file, the survice started successfully in 547ms, later I tried opening the homepage of tomacat by entering
      localhost:8080 in my cleint
   ,all I could see is</p>
  
  <pre><code>HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.IllegalStateException: No output folder
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>with a     message java.lang.IllegalStateException: No output folder.</p>
  
  <p>If i don't mention the output folder, am I not supposed to see the homepage of tomcat ?</p>
  
  <p>also I did stop the service by double clicking on<br>
  apache-tomcat-8.0.9\bin\startup.ba    file, then I started the service using eclipse then tried opening in my client, then I got a 404 error.</p>
  
  <p>I have no clue where am I going wrong, please give me some suggestions so that i can solve this, also what is the root folder of tomcat in order to put my project folder ?</p>