Hi,

>BUT how can I get the user to go straight to
>http://localhost:8080/testapp/jsp/overview.jsp
>when they enter http://localhost:8080
>at the moment it just goes to the tomcat home page index.jsp

You need to make your webapp reside at context path "" (the empty
string, not null and especially not "/") in the Tomcat configuration.
That means you need to replace the ROOT webapp that ships with Tomcat
with your application.

To do so, remove webapps/ROOT, remove conf/Catalina/localhost/root.xml
if it's present, and remove all contents of the work directory.  Then
add a testapp.xml file on conf/Catalina/localhost, containing a Context
element like
<Context path="" docBase="testapp" />

Also set autoDeploy="false" in the Host declaration in your
conf/server.xml file.

>and is there a way I can do without the user needing to specify the
port
>i.e http://localhost as other servers seem to do.

Yes: run Tomcat on port 80.  That is the default port for HTTP, the one
used when no other port is specified.  Tomcat runs on port 8080 by
default.  This can be changed by modifying the Connector declaration in
your conf/server.xml file.

Yoav



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