Deploying angular dist in Glassfish

[Jim Rayburn]

Background: I have a JavaEE application. It is deployed as an EAR on glassfish. The original frontend was coded manually using HTTP/JS/CSS. In an effort to update the front-end to use angular, I have developed and tested locally on my computer. I have configured it to work accounting for CORS. I am trying to deploy on top of the war portion of the web application. This was copying the files from the angular dist folder into the app_war folder of the application. Doesn't work but returns 404. I modified the web.xml so that it would not redirect to a default welcome file.

Has anyone else worked on deploying the front-end and back-end portion of the application to Glassfish?

I am running on Windows 2012 using Glassfish v4

Thank you for any help or insight.