Websphere 7 - 404 when not including trailing slash in url - websphere

Question

I am working on a project using Spring 4 MVC, AngularJS, and Websphere 7. When I build my application as a war and install it through the Websphere 7 admin console everything works fine. However, I need my war wrapped in an EAR (not the generic EAR that websphere automatically wraps it in). So I created a seperate project that takes the WAR and wraps it in an EAR.
When I go to the url http://localhost:9080/public/myapp then I get a 404 that it can't find the resources. When I add a trailing slash on it like this http://localhost:9080/public/myapp/ then it redirects to the index.html resource just fine. I need it to find the index.html when I go to the url without the trailing slash. How can I get that to work?
Here's my configuration files:
application.xml in the EAR
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd" version="5">
<display-name>myapp-ear</display-name>
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>myapp-web-2.0-SNAPSHOT.war</web-uri>
<context-root>/public/myapp</context-root>
</web>
</module>
</application>
ibm-web-bnd.xml in the WAR
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-bnd xmlns="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee/ibm-web-bnd_1_0.xsd"
version="1.0">
<virtual-host name="default_host"/>
<resource-ref name="UwProfileDataSource" binding-name="jdbc/uwprofile"></resource-ref>
</web-bnd>
web.xml in the WAR
<web-app xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee
http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/web-app_2_5.xsd"
version="2.5">
<servlet>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.springframework.web.servlet.DispatcherServlet</servlet-class>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
<servlet-mapping>
<servlet-name>myapp</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
<resource-ref>
<description>myapp Service</description>
<res-ref-name>UwProfileDataSource</res-ref-name>
<res-type>javax.sql.DataSource</res-type>
<res-auth>Container</res-auth>
<res-sharing-scope>Shareable</res-sharing-scope>
</resource-ref>
</web-app>
myapp-servlet.xml in the WAR
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<beans xmlns="http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans"
xmlns:mvc="http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc"
xmlns:context="http://www.springframework.org/schema/context"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans
http://www.springframework.org/schema/beans/spring-beans.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc
http://www.springframework.org/schema/mvc/spring-mvc.xsd
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context
http://www.springframework.org/schema/context/spring-context.xsd">
<context:component-scan base-package="com.myapp"/>
<mvc:annotation-driven/>
<mvc:default-servlet-handler/>
<mvc:resources mapping="/**" location="classpath:/app/"/>
<mvc:view-controller path="/" view-name="forward:/index.html" />
<bean id="uwProfileDataSource" class="org.springframework.jndi.JndiObjectFactoryBean">
<property name="jndiName"><value>UwProfileDataSource</value></property>
<property name="resourceRef"><value>true</value></property>
</bean>
</beans>