Index.html not available (404) on Tomcat

[RouvenZ]

Dear all,

sadly, we cannot get our mapfish to work properly.

Context

• MapFish print version: 3.30.6 (we used the print-servlet-3.30.6.war from here)
• Java version: 21.0.1
• OS: Windows Server 2016
• Tomcat version: 7.0.107 (XAMPP-bundle)

Describe the bug

The request for the http://localhost:8080/print/index.html fails after deployment, as does the one for http://localhost:8080/print/ folder in general.

How to reproduce

• put the .war-file (renamed as print.war) in the webapps directory
• start Tomcat
• wait for full deployment
• try to reach (given on the same machine and port 8080) http://localhost:8080/print/index.html

Actual results
The deployment works and the resulting /print/ folder contains an index.html-file. If copied to the local drive and opened there, the following shows:

However, if one tries to reach the localhost-link directly, the request for the index.html returns a 404-error.

Seemingly, it is not due to a connectivity issue of the Tomcat itself, as a deployment of the sample war works and http://localhost:8080/sample/ can be reached as expected.

Question
Is this a known issue with older versions of Tomcat (ours is a bit outdated, I know), or what could be the reason for this?

Thank you all for your support and have a nice evening!

Kind regards
Rouven

[RouvenZ]

Update: It has to do nothing with either the Tomcat version or the mapfish version. We updated to Tomcat 10.1.19 and also tried with the older Mapfish version 3.22.0 to try and apply the solution proposed in issue 1215 (see here).

As before, the Tomcat displays the webapp in its manager pane, but http://localhost:8080/print/ comes back with a 404 error as before.