Assuming that i5 is set up to map to tomcat/webapps/i5 folder in tomcat, if my URL is http://localhost:8080/i5/home.do and all home.do does is forward the request to a tiles definition, can somebody enlighten me on what path each of these tiles' put tags are trying to reference? <put name="title" value="/std/header.jsp" /> <put name="title" value="/header.jsp" /> <put name="title" value="../header.jsp" /> <put name="title" value="./header.jsp" /> <put name="title" value="header.jsp" /> For example, does <put name="title" value="/std/header.jsp" /> trying to point to the header.jsp that reside in tomcathome/webapps/i5/std/header.jsp ? thanks