Change the root context to other folder in tomcat 6

Question

I want to change the context of my deployed web application. Currently it is accessed by the url www.app.mysite.com/dashboard

But i want to change it to www.app.mysite.com/application/dashboard

I went through post to change the root context here and here. But the thing is that i have other applications running to on that server which are accessed by

www.app.mysite.com/ps
www.app.mysite.com/ls

If i change the context path in server.xml will it affect context of my other application ?I dont want the context to change for above mentioned apps, but i want to change it for my particular application dashboard.

Is there any way to change the context of any particular application, by adding any thing to web.xml or other?

I assume you can have two elements, each with its own path and its own docBase. — Darius X., Sep 18 '13 at 15:12

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Sep 20 '13 at 22:38

This is a way to do it (step-by-step):

Put your expanded WAR in a directory outside of webapps. My TOMCAT_HOME is /home/nikos/apache-tomcat-6.0.37 and I placed my app in the folder myapp under a new folder: $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps-manual. I.e. the folder structure is:
```
$TOMCAT_HOME
|
+- ...
|
+- webapps (NOT HERE!!!)
|
+- webapps-manual
   |
   +- myapp
      |
      +- index.jsp
      |
      +- WEB-INF
         |
         +- web.xml (optional)
```

Edit TOMCAT_ROOT/conf/server.xml. Add the following <Context> under the appropriate <Host> element (there is probably only one):

<Host ...>
    <Context
        path="/application/dashboard"
        docBase="/home/nikos/apache-tomcat-6.0.37/webapps-manual/myapp"
    />
</Host>

DONE! Open http://localhost:8080/application/dashboard/index.jsp and see content generated by $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps-manual/myapp/index.jsp.

See relevant documentation here (see attributes path and docBase).

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '13 at 16:02

I doubt whether this is possible in tomcat. Best would be to use apache http server or else, create two applications one with context root application (dummy application) with a servlet to route all the request to dashboard.

Let me know if you are able to do this in tomcat in a better way

Change the root context to other folder in tomcat 6

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