You need to put the JSP file in /index.jsp instead of in /WEB-INF/jsp/index.jsp. This way the whole servlet is superflous by the way. WebContent |– META-INF |– WEB-INF | `– web.xml `– index.jsp If you’re absolutely positive that you need to invoke a servlet this strange way, then you should map it on an URL … Read more
By default, when you open the project root folder as in http://localhost:8080/ProjectName/ instead of a physical file as in http://localhost:8080/ProjectName/Index.jsp, then the server will lookup for a welcome file in web.xml. If none is found, then you’ll get this 404 “Page not found” error. In your case, URLs and file names are case sensitive. You … Read more
First of all, the <welcome-file> does not represent the path to the “default home page”. It represents the filename of the physical file contained in the folder which you’d like to serve up as default file when a folder like /, /foo/, /foo/bar/, etc is requested. So, in JSF 2.x flavor, that would basically be: … Read more