<welcome-file-list> ignored

I am new to jforum but have it (2.3.4) integrated with my current site and working locally using NetBeans/Glassfish/Mysql.

However, if the specific page is not in the url the <welcome-file-list> in web.xml seems to be ignored.

My web.xml has:

<welcome-file-list>
<welcome-file>index.htm</welcome-file>
</welcome-file-list>

But if I do not specify index.htm in the url, jforum seems to intercept it and takes me to the forum.

If I include index.htm in the url it works as expected.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
Spencer

[Update] I tried changing a few things and it may now be working. I will continue with some additional testing and give another update if there is still a problem.

[Update2] I did have some other problems that were resolved with changes to the web.xml. It is now running on AWS at mapbake.com.