How does Tomcat find the HOME PAGE of my Web App?

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In any web application, there will be a web.xml in the WEB-INF/ folder.

If you dont have one in your web app, as it seems to be the case in your folder structure, the default Tomcat web.xml is under TOMCAT_HOME/conf/web.xml

Either way, the relevant lines of the web.xml are

<welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.html</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
        <welcome-file>index.jsp</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

so any file matching this pattern when found will be shown as the home page.

In Tomcat, a web.xml setting within your web app will override the default, if present.

Further Reading

How do I override the default home page loaded by Tomcat?

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