configiring tomcat 4.03 to run my static web page on startup

[mav]

hi,
I have tomcat 4.03 on my system and created static web pages with links and have created a database tables that i need to link trough tomcat to my web pages.
1. how do i make tomcat startup where my webpage insted of defult page of tomcat that is in localhost:8080 tomcat/wabapps/ROOT/index.html as defult?
2. where do i put my access database tables into and how do i link it?
need help ASAP.

[Anonymous]

I believe that you can change your start page by adding a <welcome-file> element in web.xml. That file is found in $CATALINA_HOME$/conf.
As far as the Access stuff is concerned, you can connect to an access database using the JDBC-ODBC bridge driver. In doing that, you can put the database anywhere on the system that you like. You will have to create a system DSN for it, and JDBC will connect using your ODBC DSN.
[ April 18, 2002: Message edited by: Bodie Minster ]