Deploy html pages in tomcat

[JayaSiji Gopal]

can we deploy html pages in tomcat?

I tried the following:
put the html page

1) in the tomcat installation directory.
2) in one of the webapps configured in tomcat instance.

in both the cases, i get "Page cannot be found" error.

In both the cases, i restarted tomcat after putting the html page( i understand that a restart is not required)

i used the following url:

http://hostname:port/nameofhtml.html
http://hostname:port/webapp/nameofhtml.html

i understand that apache is used to hold static content and tomcat for jsp and dynamic content. Out of curiosity i want to know if we can deploy html pages in tomcat. if Yes, how?

[Bear Bibeault]

Same way that you would a JSP. Tomcat doesn't care if it's a JSP or HTML.

[William Brogden]

Doublecheck the spelling and use of UPPER and lower case in the file name. A typical Tomcat installation contains many examples of html and image files for example in the tomcat-docs directory.

Bill

[Hussachai Puripunpinyo]

Tomcat => Servlet contener + Web server
Apache => Web server

So both Tomcat and Apache is Web server. they don't care what the resource is.
they receive the request and send the response.

Please check the ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/${YOUR_WEBAPP_DIR}
has the directory WEB-INF inside it.

Or you can play instantly without create new web application by put
the html or other resources to ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/ROOT
open your browser and browse to
http://localhost:8080/yourhtml.html

I hope this help ;)
[ November 29, 2007: Message edited by: Hussachai Puripunpinyo ]