servlet context to tomcat 7 root

Question

Whats the best approach to place servlet context to tomcat 7 root? I have tried this post here but didn't work for me; i'm using Apache Tomcat/7.0.42.

P.S: I don't want to rename the project name as ROOT.war.

Update

I have placed the context tag as explained in one of the answers, but still getting the tomcat home page as root:

<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 about the ROOT directory in webapps, after removing now I could have the app as root.

Sotirios Delimanolis · Accepted Answer · 2013-08-30T14:37:35.547

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In your Tomcat's conf/server.xml file, you'll typically 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 in the Host entry. For example

<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 app as it appears in the webapps folder. The docs explain the meaning of each attribute.

edited Aug 30 '13 at 14:37

answered Aug 30 '13 at 13:52

Sotirios Delimanolis

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there is no ` – tokhi Aug 30 '13 at 14:09
@stsd Try starting Tomcat with your jar in the webapps folder. It should create an entry for it. Then stop Tomcat and change it. – Sotirios Delimanolis Aug 30 '13 at 14:10
It's not an entry that preexists, it's one that you have to define. To tell Tomcat, or else it will go by default. @stsd – Louis Hong Aug 30 '13 at 14:15
@SotiriosDelimanolis: I did, there is no such an entry, if I addd its not working, btw what is `source="someSource`? – tokhi Aug 30 '13 at 14:24
@stsd Forget about `source`. It's an Eclipse attribute. Give me a second. – Sotirios Delimanolis Aug 30 '13 at 14:26
@stsd You can add the `` element yourself inside the `` element. You must not have a `ROOT` app. Take a look at my edit. – Sotirios Delimanolis Aug 30 '13 at 14:37
@SotiriosDelimanolis: I did, its not working.. root is still pointing at tomcat home. – tokhi Aug 30 '13 at 14:47
@stsd Can you update your question with some details (`server.xml`, name of app, etc.)? It is working for me. – Sotirios Delimanolis Aug 30 '13 at 14:48
@stsd If your application folder in webapps is named `app-renderer` and you have no `ROOT` application in webapps, what you've posted should work. What is your servlet url-mapped to? – Sotirios Delimanolis Aug 30 '13 at 15:00
@SotiriosDelimanolis: tnx worked.. I update the post what was the issue. – tokhi Aug 30 '13 at 15:09

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 30 '13 at 13:49

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check the context documentation. You're looking for the docBase attribute for your webapp's path and the path attribute for the root context, e.g. leave it empty as described in the attribute's documentation.

answered Aug 30 '13 at 13:49

Olaf Kock

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered May 18 '14 at 13:43

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

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

2. paste below code 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 tomcat root.

To have a clean project remove tomcat/webapps/ROOT directory.

servlet context to tomcat 7 root

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