Servlet context for tomcat 7 root

Question

What is the best approach for hosting servlet context in tomcat 7 root? I tried this post here , but did not work for me; I am using Apache Tomcat/7.0.42 .

PS: I do not want to rename the project name as ROOT.war .

Update

I put the context tag as described in one of the answers, but still get the tomcat homepage with root privileges:

 <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" /> <Context docBase="app-renderer" path="/" reloadable="true" /> </Host> 

Update 2

The problem was in the ROOT directory in webapps , after uninstalling now I could use the application as root.

Answer 1

In your Tomcat conf/server.xml file, you will usually have an entry

 <Context docBase="yourApp" path="/somePath" reloadable="true" source="someSource"/> 

for your application.

Change the path to /

 <Context docBase="yourApp" path="/" reloadable="true" source="someSource"/> 

Add this to the Host entry. for instance

 <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt" pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" /> <Context docBase="yourApp" path="/" reloadable="true" /> </Host> 

where the docBase attribute is the name of your application that appears in the webapps folder. Documents explain the meaning of each attribute.

Answer 2

check context documentation . You are looking for the docBase attribute for your webapp path and the path attribute for the root context, for example. leave it blank as described in the attribute documentation.

Answer 3

Without changing the .war file to ROOT follow these steps:

1. Create a file called ROOT.xml under tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/

2. Paste the code below into the ROOT.xml file:

 <Context docBase="/home/user/YOUR_PROJECT/target/YOUR_PROJECT.war" path="" reloadable="true" /> 

Now you can access your project in the root of tomcat.

To delete a clean project, delete the tomcat/webapps/ROOT directory.