welcome file problem

[John Pedersen]

Hi,

 I am having difficulties getting the welcome file to work.

the url: http://website/index.htm works fine, but http://website leads to a
404 - *The requested resource (/) is not available.*

>From my web.xml:
...
<welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>/index.htm</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>

    <error-page>
        <exception-type>java.lang.Exception</exception-type>
        <!-- Displays a stack trace -->
        <location>/error.htm</location>
    </error-page>
...

What am I doing wrong?

TIA,

John