Sun Java System Web Server 6.1 SP7 Programmer's Guide to Web Applications

Default Web Applications

A web application that is deployed in a virtual server at a URI ”/’ becomes the default web application for that virtual server. For details, see Virtual Servers virtual server, point your browser to the URL for the virtual server, but do not supply a context root. For example:

http://myvirtualserver:3184/

If none of the web applications under a virtual server are deployed at the URI ”/’, the virtual server serves HTML or JSP content from its document root, which is usually install_dir/docs. To access this HTML or JSP content, point your browser to the URL for the virtual server, and do not supply a context root but rather specify the target file. For example:

http://myvirtualserver:3184/hellothere.jsp