OK, unless your image or css file is the welcome page in the root webapp, you haven't directly requested the image or css; you've requested an html document, and the browser then requests the image or css when it parses the html of your welcome page. So, let's pretend the name of the image embedded in your welcome page is "welcome.jpg". Please try: http://www.ponte-net.de:8080/welcome.jpg and http://www.ponte-net.de/welcome.jpg View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4101346#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...