Tomcat 5.X and creating a Web Application

Question

To all,
I've tried to add a new web application to the Tomcat 5.0.X (It is a bundled download with NetBeans, since I can't use Struts directly from the NetBeans IDE, I'm just using the Tomcat to act as the Web App Server)
My procedures are like this:
1) create a folder (eg. Struts_Trial) under the Catalina_Home\webapps
2) add an index.jsp (no xml config files are added by now)
3) re-start the Tomcat
4) try to access the web app in a browser (eg. http://localhost:8080/Struts_Trial/index.jsp)
5) it fails and list out "404 requested resource is not available"
I remember that adding a new web app is really that simple, but now it seems to be a bit different and I can't figure it out what's wrong or missing (except missing the xml config files)
From Jason (Kusanaghk)

Answer 1

If you:
1) create a folder (eg. Struts_Trial) under the Catalina_Home\webapps
2) add an index.jsp
You then need to add a folder called WEB-INF in webapps/Struts_Trial/
In here put a file called web.xml that looks like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app
    PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN"
    "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
  <display-name>Test</display-name>
  <description>
     Test
  </description>
  <welcome-file-list>
    <welcome-file/>
  </welcome-file-list> 
</web-app>Now restart tomcat and you should be able to access the page by going to:
http://localhost:8080/Struts_Trial/index.jsp
(if you are running tomcat on port 8080)