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How do I override the default home page loaded by Tomcat?
After successfully installing Tomcat, you usually test it by loading http://localhost:8080/. The contents of that page are compiled into the index_jsp servlet. The page even warns against modifying the index.jsp files for this reason. Luckily it is quite easy to override that page. Inside $TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml there is a section called <welcome-file-list> and it looks like this:
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<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
<welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
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The default servlet attempts to load the index.* files in the order listed. You may easily override the index.jsp file by creating an index.html file at $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/ROOT. It's somewhat common for that file to contain a new static home page or a redirect to a servlet's main page. A redirect would look like:
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;http://mydomain.com/some/path/to/servlet/homepage/">
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
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This change takes effect immediately and does not require a restart of Tomcat.