Tomcat default webapp

Hi Everyone,
I apologise if this is the wrong place for this post but the majority of everyone here has a vast knowledge of tomcat and I have recieved alot of help when writing it from this forum.
So I have created a simple web application, registered my domain and have mapped the ip of my web server with my domain registrar, so all requests for my web site are redirected to my static IP address.
By default when tomcat receives a request to port 80 or 8080 whichever you are using it looks for the <welcome-file> you specify in your web.xml. In this case by default it looks for the index.jsp file in the webapps\ROOT directory.
What I wish to do is configure it to look in
webapps\myWebApp\index.jsp
as opposed to root whenever a request comes in.
Can anyone tell me how this is configured? i have read through some docs at
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/manager-howto.html
but didn't find the answer.
Also if this is the wrong way to deploy my app please let me know.
Thanks in advance.
Tas

http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
Under the section on "path"
" If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts. The value of this field must not be set except when statically defining a Context in server.xml, as it will be infered from the filenames used for either the .xml context file or the docBase."

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