How to set up tomcat context path for web application? .war file name is coming infront of the application name in the url

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I am having a trouble getting my web application 'xyz' running in tomcat 7 server hosted in DigitalOcean servers at:

The name of my .war file is ".MyWebApp".

after deploying the .war file in tomcat, the application starts at:

any idea how to remove this "MyWebApp" part from the URL?

I have seen some of the solutions for this problem, they are mostly solutions of running the application in localhost. They suggested to change the 'context.xml' file which I already did like this:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context>

    <!-- Default set of monitored resources -->
    <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>
    <WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>

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

Any help would be very much appreciated!

Do not mark this as duplicate. I have checked all the solutions which worked for me in localhost, but not in digital ocean VPS. I think I am pretty specific here.

Thank you in advance!

Your context.xml does not seems valid to me, the property at the bottom should be related to an element ? — Jean-François Savard, Feb 01 '15 at 23:29
That basically goes into the . Adding this property helped me to fix the problem while running in the localhost skipping the war file name. — Tanvir Hossain Khan, Feb 01 '15 at 23:53

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Feb 06 '15 at 02:55

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I had to add this line in in the server.xml file. Tod do this:

nano etc/tomcat/server.xml

add this line:

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

Save the file.

Restart tomcat.

answered Feb 06 '15 at 02:55

Tanvir Hossain Khan

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Note that this tag should be added within the `` tag – Hamdi Mar 04 '15 at 19:23

score 1 · Answer 2 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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The simplest way is to rename your app to ROOT.war

Not very elegant, but pretty much foolproof.

There are of course other solutions.

edited May 23 '17 at 12:10

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answered Feb 01 '15 at 23:29

Malt

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Yeah, renaming the war file to ROOT is not elegant, and may create troubles if I have more than one web app. I have checked out your link. These three methods are basically solutions to set the default application. But in the case of multiple web apps running in my tomcat server how can I skip the war file name to access the app that is the problem where I am stuck basically. – Tanvir Hossain Khan Feb 02 '15 at 00:14
I tried the second method adding this line just before the ending tag of in my server.xml: `` It percially solved the problem as I can access it skipping the war file name. But the probleam is it is also running another different instance with the war file name. It's surely a performance degrade! – Tanvir Hossain Khan Feb 02 '15 at 01:49
@TanvirHKShuvo that's why I prefer the ROOT.war solution. This question has been asked several times, and the solutions are always the same: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7276989/howto-set-the-context-path-of-a-web-application-in-tomcat-7-0 – Malt Feb 02 '15 at 08:40

How to set up tomcat context path for web application? .war file name is coming infront of the application name in the url

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