Tomcat: How to deploy in root?
Case
You have a WAR to deploy on Tomcat, let’s say jonathan.war for instance. Usually, the application will be reached through the URL http://machine:port/jonathan.
Let’s say you would like to exclude the WAR name from the address, ie the application to be reached on http://machine:port/. This operation is called “to deploy in root”, since the context will be simple slash: '/'.
Solution
You can implement that with two means:
- rename the war as ROOT.war, then deploy.
- or: edit
conf/server.xml, replace<context>
with
<context path="" docBase="jonathan" debug="0" reloadable="true">