can open webapp but not tomcat home page

Question

When I deploy a webapp to a server by eclipse i can visit the webapp's sites with external browsers with no problems. But I can't open localhost:8080 to visit tomcat's own page.how so? Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

By default, Eclipse will not use the web container (tomcat in your case) files directly. It will copies some required files into <your_workspace>/.metadata/.plugin/org.eclipse.wst.server.core/ and run server from there.

The localhost:8080 page in tomcat are actually a default webapp call ROOT , you can find it in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT .

When Eclipse copies web container files, it DOSE NOT include deployed application, that's the reason you cannot see root page.