You didn't mention your orion/config/server.xml file. There must be an entry in server.xml which specifies the location of your web.xml file. It would look something like:
<web-site path="../applications/mywebapp/webstuff/WEB-INF/web.xml" /> You may also need another line in this same server.xml file, like this: <application name="mywebapp" path="../applications/mywebapp/" /> Then, your orion/config/default-web-site.xml file should probably have the following line: <web-app application="mywebapp" name="webstuff" root="/mywebapp" /> which, assuming orion is running on your local machine, would allow you to access your index.jsp file as: http://localhost/webstuff/index.jsp Hope this helps... -Dale