THIS IS A TEST INSTANCE. ALL YOUR CHANGES WILL BE LOST!!!!
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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 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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