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I have created a dynamic web project in Java. When I run the project with Tomcat server, it always hits index.html. I want to hit index.html in home folder, and then I write redirection to it on this way:

<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=../home/">

and a lot of other combination, but it always returns 404 not found. Does anyone have ideas how I could start page /home/index.html?
web.xml always hits the page in WebContent Folder

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  • Why do you put static content inside src folder? Commented Dec 19, 2013 at 10:03
  • I thought that static content also can be in src folder. @mauretto Commented Dec 19, 2013 at 12:03

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Write below code in your web.xml under tag.

<welcome-file-list>
   <welcome-file>/home/index.html</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>
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I have tried that already, but web.xml again hits index.html in WebContent folder. @Rahul Sahu
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It looks like your src folder does not contain sources but just static resources. You should avoid putting your css/html/images/js in this folder. Put all these in WebContent/css, WebContent/home, WebContent/images and WebContent/js and everything should work the right way.

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I already use this solution, but i am interested why redirection doesn't work.
Things in src folder are not supposed to go to your application root directory but to WEB-INF/classes which is unreachable from a browser. That's why you HAVE to put your static resources in the WebContent directory like my answer mention and NOT in src.

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