Java EE (Java Enterprise Edition) General Discussion

I'm using the netBeans IDE to develope my project and the project is web application. But I've a problems with this IDE.

Q1. The default page is index.html and the default home for the project is say $HOME, when I write http://localhost:8084/$HOME/index.html the browser displace error message. I've to run this file from the netBeans. Do I need to run netBeans and run the file from the IDE to access the index.html file?

Q2. The second problem is; once I run the index file from the netBeans and then use this address http://localhost:8084/$HOME i.e if I remove the index.html file form the URL the Browser displays all the files that I've in my project but I don't won't this to happend. Is there any means to avoid this problem?

Thank you indavance.