My HTML page is not coming up on localhost:8080 instead tomcat welcome page is displaying

I am new to spring and trying to build a simple application. I have a simple html page(home.html) which gets called from Homecontroller.

@Controller
public class HomeController {

    @GetMapping("/")
    public String home(){
        return "home";
    }
}

when i am trying to access localhost:8080 i cant see my html page instead i see the apache tomcat welcome page which shows – If you are seeing this page you have successfully installed Tomcat

what could be the reason for this? any help will be appreciated

Answer

In tomcat you need to specify the your app name http://localhost:8080/yourappname. Here the app name is the name of .war file.