How to remove the application name in URL? tomcat + httpd

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I made a web application by Apache Click Framework, and just throwed it into tomcat behind httpd.

(assume my domain name is www.domain.com.) So I can access my app by the URL: www.myDomain.com/myApp/pages/login.htm

My questions is, how to remove the "myApp" part in this url by configuration in httpd or tomcat? because my domain name already has some words like "myApp".

You need to do URL rewriting which most of framework supports like struts, spring mvc, that you can configure in your web.xml in case of java web app — Rahul Agrawal, Dec 06 '12 at 07:04
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7276989/how-to-set-the-context-path-of-a-web-application-in-tomcat-7-0/51167549#51167549 — Kanagavelu Sugumar, Jul 18 '18 at 05:27

score 8 · Accepted Answer · answered Dec 06 '12 at 08:21

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Simply name your war file root.war and deploy it to tomcat. You probably have to remove the preconfigured ROOT/ directory in tomcat first, if it exists.

answered Dec 06 '12 at 08:21

Udo Klimaschewski

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Thanks, sounds quick but... dirty. – Hetfield Joe Dec 06 '12 at 08:29
It is the standard way, as only one application can be root. No need to reconfigure Tomcat, works on any installation out of the box. Works also on Jetty, btw. – Udo Klimaschewski Dec 06 '12 at 08:34
Got it, will try. but is this OK for httpd? I mean proxy to tomcat part: "proxypass / /usr/local/tomcat/root" – Hetfield Joe Dec 06 '12 at 08:37
You mean `ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8080/`, I guess? Works. – Udo Klimaschewski Dec 06 '12 at 09:17
I have the same probelm and I have changed the war file name to root but not sure how to remove the preconfigured Root/ directory – Mar 31 '13 at 10:41
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I had to rename to ROOT.war (using all caps). Using root.war did not work for me. – jovanchohan Oct 23 '17 at 17:49

score 3 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 06 '12 at 07:10

You need to do URL rewriting which most of framework supports like struts, spring mvc, that you can configure in your web.xml in case of java web app

Please Check if you can do with tomcat server.xml in below way ( But I am not sure with this, URL rewriting will solve your problem)

Refer: http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html.

etc/hosts to add something like below

127.0.0.1 mydomain.com

server.xml changes

<Host name="bbstats.localhost" appBase="webapps/myapp"
      unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
      xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
</Host>


<Context path="/myapp" docBase="bbstats" debug="5" reloadable="true" crossContext="true"> 
</Context>

Good idea Pal, I usually just throw the .war file to the tomcat webapp directory and let it do the rest. I never tried to modify the tomcat config file cause I don't what that mean. I will check your way. and BTW, the URL rewriting must be supported by the framework for using it? — Hetfield Joe, Dec 06 '12 at 07:53

How to remove the application name in URL? tomcat + httpd

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