Disable adding appName to url while running war file on external tomcat

Question

I followed the official spring tutorial "Converting a Spring Boot JAR Application to a WAR using Maven" link.

The generated war file is deployed on tomcat and is accessible at:

a)http://localhost:8080/${AppName}/
http://localhost:8080/gs-convert-jar-to-war-maven-0.1.0/  in case of the tutorial.

Which configs do I need to change to make my application directly available at

http://localhost:8080/  (without the appName)

while running my war file on tomcat?

Thanks,

Ron

Should have been more diligent with with research. Answered here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/18413723/deploy-war-file-on-tomcat-and-run-without-project-name?rq=1 — Ron, May 27 '14 at 08:13

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered May 27 '14 at 08:10

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You have to change the contextRoot of your application. There is 3 places where you can do that:

In one of these places, you can add this:

<Context
        path="/"
        docBase="/TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/yourapp"
    />

answered May 27 '14 at 08:10

lpratlong

Or you can just call your war file "ROOT.war "(http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html). – Dave Syer May 27 '14 at 08:11
Yep. But, well... I prefer to configure it in a file. – lpratlong May 27 '14 at 08:12
Thanks Ipratlong and Dave. Both the suggested solutions worked for me – Ron May 27 '14 at 08:16

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