Deploying just HTML, CSS webpage to Tomcat

Here's my step in Ubuntu 16.04 and Tomcat 8.

1. Copy folder /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT to your folder.

   cp -r /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/{yourfolder}

2. Add your html, css, js, to your folder.

3. Open "http://localhost:8080/{yourfolder}" in browser

Notes:

1. If you using chrome web browser and did wrong folder before, then clean web browser's cache(or change another name) otherwise (sometimes) it always 404.

2. The folder META-INF with context.xml is needed.

There is no real need to create a war to run it from Tomcat. You can follow these steps

1. Create a folder in webapps folder e.g. MyApp

2. Put your html and css in that folder and name the html file, which you want to be the starting page for your application, index.html

3. Start tomcat and point your browser to url "http://localhost:8080/MyApp". Your index.html page will pop up in the browser

Here's my setup: I am on Ubuntu 9.10.

Now, Here's what I did.

1. Create a folder named "tomcat6-myapp" in /usr/share.
2. Create a folder "myapp" under /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp.
3. Copy the HTML file (that I need to deploy) to /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp. It must be named index.html.
4. Go to /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost.

5. Create an xml file "myapp.xml" (i guess it must have the same name as the name of the folder in step 2) inside /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost with the following contents.

   < Context path="/myapp" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp" />
   

6. This xml is called the 'Deployment Descriptor' which Tomcat reads and automatically deploys your app named "myapp".

7. Now go to http://localhost:8080/myapp in your browser - the index.html gets picked up by tomcat and is shown.

I hope this helps!