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Joel,

On 2/4/19 16:35, Joel Griffith wrote:
> I've installed Tomcat 8.0.32 a local Ubuntu 16.04 VM (Oracle
> VirtualBox) and I'm using it to access a webapp through the laptop
> the VM is local to. The VM port-forwards 3081 to 8080, so I can
> access Tomcat as ` http://127.0.0.1:3081/` in my laptop browser.

Are you sure it's going to the Tomcat you think it's going to?

> Accessing `http://127.0.0.1:3081/` gives the default page stored
> in `/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT/index.html`.  So, Tomcat is able
> to find and serve from the `webapps/` directory.
> 
> However, if I try to access
> `http://127.0.0.1:3081/myWebapp/index.html`, which exists as
> `/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/myWebapp/index.html`, Tomcat returns a
> 404, reporting that the requested resource in unavailable.
> 
> `/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/myWebapp/WEB-INF/web.xml` exists and is
> identical to that used in a functioning setup on a different
> server.  It was originally written for a Tomcat 7 deployment, I
> think, but there's nothing in it that seems to have anything to do
> with these URLs, so I don't think it's a problem with that file.
> Similarly, `/var/lib/tomcat8/conf/server.xml` exists and is
> virtually identical to that used in the other (functioning)
> deployment.
> 
> All of the information I've been able to scrape together from web
> searches over the past two days indicate that the presence of a
> folder within the `webapps/` directory is sufficient for Tomcat to
> recognize and register it as a Context.  I'm at a complete loss for
> what else I need to do to have Tomcat serve the file
> `webapps/myWebapp/index.html`
> 
> What am I missing?  Why can Tomcat find `webapps/ROOT/index.html`
> but not `webapps/myWebapp/index.html`?

Do you have an AccessLogVave enabled for the server? Is it showing
your requests and the 404 response when you make a request?

- -chris
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