Error 404 running Tomcat from Eclipse

Question

I'm new to Eclipse and to Java Web app but i have to work to a project for school on databases. I created an Eclipse project form the template they gave us and installed Tomcat v7.0 When I start Tomcat "manually" with startup.sh it start nicely and shows the tomcat homepage to localhost:8080 . But when I try to run the project from eclipse on both localhost:8080 and localhost:8080/IntroDBProject it shows the 404 error report.

I already tried copying the ROOT folder in ../.metadata/.plugins/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/tmp0/webapps/ (and restarting eclipse) but still it doesn't seem to work.

Can someone help?

I'm working on Mac OSX 10.9.2 / Eclipse Java EE IDE / Tomcat v7.0

Answer 1

Ok I solved the problem. I simply deleted and reimported the project. I should have done that earlier. I feel dumb -.-