When Using Tomcat 3.1 with Apache, how do you set up your context and web server index so that a .jsp file is set as the index file?

In Apache, first map the desired jsp filename to the directory index. For example:

In srm.conf [or httpd.conf]:

DirectoryIndex index.jsp

Then in your webapp's web.xml or in your server's web.xml, look at the bottom for the <welcome-file-list> tag. You can add <welcome-file> tags to this tag, such as:

<welcome-file-list>
  <welcome-file>
    desired-index.jsp
  </welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>