Change Default Page of Tomcat

In Tomcat 5.5 you have to add the following line INSIDE your HOST element in ther server.xml

<Context path="" docBase="myApp" debug="0"/>

This is better than copying your application in the ROOT directory.
When googling around for this problem I also found the following solution (which works, but is real stupid):
The default Application, which is situated in the ROOT directory is precompiled so they recommended to uncomment the following in .../ROOT/WEB-INF/web.xml:

<!--
<servlet>
<servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-class>
</servlet>

<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>org.apache.jsp.index_jsp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/index.jsp</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
-->


to remove the precompilation. When you now edit the index.jsp it takes effect. So you only have to add a redirect in the index.jsp and voila :-)