Tomcat8 remove unnecessary app name in the path

Question

I am using Tomcat8. I deployed a war file by name admin.war.This resulted in my URL turning out to

http://localhost:8080/admin.

Nevertheless, I want the URL to be http://localhost:8080. So I tried adding the following inside /conf/server.xml as mentioned here.

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

However, this did not work. Is there an alternative?

Possible duplicate of [Default web app in tomcat](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5638787/default-web-app-in-tomcat) — f_puras, Jul 13 '16 at 07:35

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 13 '16 at 07:26

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Try to add a file called ROOT.xml in <catalina_home>/conf/Catalina/localhost/

And enter there the following:

<Context 
  docBase="yourAppName" 
  path="" 
  reloadable="true" 
/>

Now your application is default application on your server and you can access it with URL http://localhost:8080

answered Jul 13 '16 at 07:26

Sergey Frolov

I added the content as ` ` However it did not work. – Dhana Jul 13 '16 at 08:39
try to rename your war file to root.war – Sergey Frolov Jul 13 '16 at 08:54
I did the same and it worked. However when the name is admin.war and I place the xml with the Context tag as admin.xml inside \conf\Catalina\localhost it is not working. – Dhana Jul 13 '16 at 09:39

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