LogikDevelopment » root context http://www.logikdev.com "Il n'y a pas de problème, il n'y a que des solutions. L'esprit de l'homme invente ensuite le problème." André Gide Fri, 27 Aug 2010 08:54:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Deploy your app to the root context http://www.logikdev.com/2010/01/06/deploy-your-app-to-the-root-context/ http://www.logikdev.com/2010/01/06/deploy-your-app-to-the-root-context/#comments Wed, 06 Jan 2010 20:10:49 +0000 smoreau http://www.logikdev.com/?p=243 This is an easy trick which I am sure most of you already know.

Let’s take a Java application called MyAddressBook. Its generated war file could be called myaddressbook.war.

By default, when you deploy this web application to Tomcat, the URL to access it will be http://localhost:8080/myaddressbook/. And if you point a domain name such as ‘addressbook.com’ to this server, the URL would be http://addressbook.com/myaddressbook/.

I don’t know for you but I don’t like to systematically have the subfolder ‘myaddressbook’ after my domain. But maybe I am too picky! ;)

The idea is to deploy our application in the Tomcat root context.
You have two ways of doing this:

  • Define a ROOT.xml file in your conf/Catalina/localhost folder, or;
  • Rename your war file to ROOT.war.

Note that the case is important, it has to be ROOT in UPPERCASE! :)

Once this is done, you will be able to call your application via the URL http://localhost:8080/
or http://addressbook.com/. Way better! 8-)

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