How to set context path to root("/") in Tomcat 7.0 when using Maven

Question

I hava a maven project, pom.xml contains tomcat plugin.

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
 <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.2</version>
</plugin>

I've downloaded Tomcat 7, so I've got Tomcat directory (apache-tomcat-7.0.56). I tried three goals to run my project:

tomcat7:run, tomcat7:run-war, tomcat7:run-war-only

My application is running at http://localhost:8080/projectname, if I run tomcat7:run-war, projectname-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war appears in the /target directory of my project.

I want to run my application at http://localhost:8080/.

I know this question was asked before, but unfortunately those solutions didn't help me.

I tried both methods from the first answer of this.

First method didn't work for me, after renaming war nothing changed, tomcat7:run-war-only requires war with name like projectname-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.war.

The second method changed nothing (I tried both

<Context path="" docBase="projectname-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>
and

<Context path="" docBase="projectname" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>)

I have also looked throw this, but I don't have <catalina_home>/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory in my Tomcat directory.

Take a look at the settings of this plugin. – Aleksandr M Nov 11 '14 at 10:21 — Aleksandr M, Nov 11 '14 at 10:21

Stefan · Accepted Answer · 2018-07-11T12:26:49.157

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Have you tried changing the context path by setting it in the configuration section of the Maven plugin?

FYI: Find the current version of the plugin here

  <plugin>
   <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
   <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
   <version>2.2</version>

    <configuration>
      <path>/</path>
    </configuration>

  </plugin>

edited Jul 11 '18 at 12:26

answered Nov 11 '14 at 11:11

Stefan

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Can you please let me know where / needs to be specified under which plugin? – Srinivas Mar 31 '15 at 16:45
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@Srinivas org.apache.tomcat.maven tomcat7-maven-plugin / 2.2 – Bogdan Timofeev Apr 03 '15 at 08:19
The documentation states explicitly *not* to use `/`for the path: http://tomcat.apache.org/maven-plugin-2.1/tomcat7-maven-plugin/standalone-war-mojo.html – rec Oct 04 '16 at 11:00
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Yes, but it doesn't state why, and it works very well. – Stefan Oct 06 '16 at 07:11
Here is question for the "why" part. https://stackoverflow.com/q/55247848/1433665 – TheKojuEffect Mar 19 '19 at 19:17

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 20 '16 at 22:58

I am using tomee and it works for me.

Add the context tag to the pom file as follows:-

<plugin>
 <groupId>org.apache.tomcat.maven</groupId>
 <artifactId>tomcat7-maven-plugin</artifactId>
 <version>2.2</version>
 <configuration>
   ..
   <context>ROOT<context>
   ..
 </configuration>
</plugin>

How to set context path to root("/") in Tomcat 7.0 when using Maven

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