Welcome file not displayed in my Dynamic web project

Question

I am trying to create sample web project to understand the concept. I am facing some issues. After executing the application on Java web server, Welcome list page doesn't get displayed.

When i googled , basic reason , I found is location of index.html is incorrect or it is not mentioned in web.xml file. In my case , I think it is correct.

Please Guide. following are the screen shots.

Regards

Prat

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Edit :

Answer 1

welcome-file-list in web.xml

The welcome-file-list element of web-app, is used to define a list of welcome files. Its sub element is welcome-file that is used to define the welcome file.

A welcome file is the file that is invoked automatically by the server, if you don't specify any file name.

By default server looks for the welcome file in following order:

1. welcome-file-list in web.xml
2. index.html
3. index.htm
4. index.jsp

If none of these files are found, server renders 404 error.

If you have specified welcome-file in web.xml, and all the files index.html, index.htm and index.jsp exists, priority goes to welcome-file.

If welcome-file-list entry doesn't exist in web.xml file, priority goes to index.html file then index.htm and at last index.jsp file.

 <web-app>      
  <welcome-file-list>  
   <welcome-file>home.html</welcome-file>  
   <welcome-file>default.html</welcome-file>  
  </welcome-file-list>  
</web-app>

Now, home.html and default.html will be the welcome files.

If you have the welcome file, you can directory invoke the project as given below:

http://localhost:8080/projectname