default page absent if tomcat started from eclipse

Hello Group, If I start tomcat 6.0 from my eclipse IDE, then I am not able to see the default page for tomcat server, which sits at http://localhost:8080. In this case both browsers IE and Firefox give 404 status errors. However if I start the server independently then I am able to see the

Re: default page absent if tomcat started from eclipse

The default webpage does belong to the default application (the name of that application is ROOT). If ROOT application is not deployed on the server, there is no default page to be displayed. See also,