How to point ip address to webapp

Question

I'm new to deploying applications on a live server so please bear with me

I have a static IP address and a webapp deployed on a server pointed at by said IP address.

So right now I can access the webapp from any machine like so

12.123.123.123:8080/myapp

How do I configure Tomcat so that I don't have to specify the port and the app name? Any pointer would be appreciated

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 07 '15 at 18:21

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http://12.123.123.123/ is just shorthand for http://12.123.123.123:80/, so you will want to set up Tomcat to run on port 80 (or port 443 if you're doing HTTPS). Next, you want to deploy to / instead of /myapp - in Tomcat, this means using the special "ROOT" app-name for your app (it can be ROOT.war for example) - the all-caps is important.

answered Jul 07 '15 at 18:21

dcsohl

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You can see [this answer](http://stackoverflow.com/a/6093662/2506382) for several ways to deploy to "ROOT". – dcsohl Jul 07 '15 at 18:23
I get permission denied for port 80, I wonder how I could get around this – steven35 Jul 07 '15 at 18:29
I just had to set authBind=yes – steven35 Jul 07 '15 at 18:38

How to point ip address to webapp

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