title: Deploying WAR to AWS Tomcat 404 Error
body: <p>I am trying to deploy a WAR file compiled in JDK 1.8 to an AWS Tomcat Elastic Beanstalk instance. the elastic beanstalk instance uses JDK 8 and Tomcat 8, so I don't understand why I'm getting 404 errors when deploying my WAR file. I'm using gradle to build and WAR the application if that is of any help.</p>
  
  <p>the logs are too big to paste in, and I don't know what is significant, so I uploaded the bundled zip to my dropbox that you can find here:
  <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1ssmz76pbqkn20/BundleLogs-1487348401257.zip?dl=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/s/d1ssmz76pbqkn20/BundleLogs-1487348401257.zip?dl=0</a></p>
  
  <p>my web.xml is also too long to paste in the question, so I will link to it here: <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/4m7v3fhcczs0ina/web.xml?dl=0" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://www.dropbox.com/s/4m7v3fhcczs0ina/web.xml?dl=0</a></p>
  
  <p>I know it's bad practice to give links on Stack Overflow because of their mutability, so once the solution is found I will edit the question to directly include the pertinent segments of code.</p>