Starting up tomcat-6.0.20 from eclipse-3.5.0 (galileo) leads to the 404 error

Console dogs me. Can anybody help?

The sad story starts like this. My OS is ubuntu-9.04. I installed tomcat-6.0.20 by extracting it from .tar.gz package and put it under the /usr/share/tomcat-6.020 directory.

Then I started tomcat from console, and everything seemed to be fine. localhost answered with the $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT/index.html page.

The next step was to put my tomcat in the eclipse's servers list. So, I went to Preferences > Server > Runtime Environment > Add > Apache Tomcat v6.0 (here I also browsed to my tomcat and changed JVM from JRE to JDK). Finally, I added my server to the Servers list.

So, having everything configured, I started my tomcat from the eclipse, opened a browser and asked for localhost. 404 all over sudden. Despite the fact that the eclipse's console has shown no errors.

Has anybody encountered the same problem?

Open your Tomcat settings (double click or F3 on your Tomcat instance in 'Servers' view in Eclipse):

1. Make sure configuration path is valid and configuration is valid
2. Click on modules tab and make sure your app is deployed.