Tomcat inside eclipse-server started successfully but

Question

If I start apache tomcat server by clicking the startup.bat from the Apache bin folder it starts successfully and I can access http://localhost:8080/ from IE. I get the message Apache Tomcat is successful. But......

In eclipse Luna, I have setup tomcat server(8). And started the server. Now when I go to Internet explorer and type in http://localhost:8080/ i'm getting error. http status 404 The requested resource not available.

Answer 1

Open Servers view in Eclipse, double-click to open configuration of Tomcat. If you don't have a Web Modules deployed in path /. Tomcat will return 404 error.

When you start Tomcat by startup.bat, it will load Web Modules under $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps. The ROOT module will serve the request of path /, so Tomcat could display a page without error.