Q:

running a web project outside eclipse using tomcat

I am midway developing my first dynamic web project in eclipse.  I am using tomcat v7.  I have developed a login.jsp page.  On success, it redirects to another home.jsp.  
It worked well in eclipse.  I edited the web.xml file by changing index.jsp to login.jsp.  Both the jsp files are in WebContent folder.  Also, i have included a servlet.java file in the jsp file.  the servlet file resides in projectName/resources/src/pkg folder. 
But when I pasted the project folder as a whole into the Apache/webapps folder, and tried to run the project from browser (after starting tomcat) using localhost:8080/ProjectName/ it returned error 404.  
When i tried using localhost:8080/ProjectName/WebContent/login.jsp , then the jsp file was loaded.  But on entering the correct username and password, it didnt redirect to home.jsp. 
Can anyone please help me.. Thanks in advance. 

A:

Don't paste the whole project, you must export it as a WAR file and then copy it to the Tomcat 's webapp folder.