How to access a simple file or folder from Tomcat webapps folder
You can also place the folder inside the default servlet. For your example, the folder would be:
/webapps/ROOT/myFolder/
Make your folder a web application: put a WEB-INF folder with a minimal web.xml file into your folder, the web.xml file could look like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE web-app PUBLIC "-//Sun Microsystems, Inc.//DTD Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://java.sun.com/dtd/web-app_2_3.dtd">
<web-app>
</web-app>
Then configure Tomcat to deploy the webapp with the URI you want.