I am struggling badly to set my application as the default. It's running on a private jvm hosted by a hosting company I've tried renaming it to ROOT and it becomes accessible by mydomain/index.html. So now I need to make it accessible without the index.html.
The most important thing to note is that this app is not deployed in tomcat/webapps/. It is deployed in tomcat/domain/mydomain/. That is the way my host has it set up and maps the directories to their given domains in the conf/server.xml file.
I've tried several approaches and no luck, also the hosts support has give me the run around since Monday, at one point breaking my application.
Take a look at the <welcome-file-list> tag which can be used in your web.xml. A good explanation of this can be found here: http://wiki.metawerx.net/wiki/Web.xml.WelcomeFileList