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1. How do I enable the JSP/Servlet support for my domain?

2. I've made some modifications to my JSP/Servlet web application. How do I apply them ?

3. My servlet mappings are not recognized ?!

4. Where do I place my JSP files ? What about the servlets/classes, JARs and WARs?

5. Why is index.jsp not recognized as a "DirectoryIndex" page ?

Tomcat's "appBase" matches Apache's "DocumentRoot". This means that if You've pointed the subdomain "test.yourdomain.com" to the "test" folder in your home directory, this "test" folder will be both "appBase" and "DocumentRoot". Respectively, for your top domain, the "appBase" is the "web-root" folder in your home.

The JSP files might be placed anywhere under your "appBase".
WAR files should be placed directly in the "appBase".

JSP changes should be picked up automatically after at most 5 minutes.
You should request WAR (re)deployment if You've just uploaded/modifed a WAR file.

Servlets, classes and JARs should go to the appropriate subdirs of WEB-INF. E.g. :

web-root/WEB-INF/classes
web-root/WEB-INF/lib

Any directory under the "appBase" which contains a WEB-INF folder is deployed at separate context. E.g. if this folder exists:

web-root/test/WEB-INF

The context "test" will be created and it could have it's own libs and classes.

Do not forget to request application/context reload if You make changes to the classes or the libraries.