Eclipse/Tomcat : tomcat home page is reachable but app is not

Question

I'm currently trying to deploy a simple web app with Eclipse on a tomcat server.

Everything looks fine when i launch the server through Eclipse. localhost:8080 is working fine and displays the tomcat home page.

However, my app "tutorial-web-spring" is not reachable as localhost:8080/tutorial-web-spring triggers a 404.

My app has been well added to my server on the eclipse server tab ...

Btw, I changed my configuration so eclipse use tomcat installation folder and not workspace metadata.

Not sure about what you mean ,but everything is in xml over here ;) — Q. Ber, Feb 07 '18 at 15:55

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 07 '18 at 15:58

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The Context Path By default, the context path is “/”. If that’s not ideal and you need to change it – to tutorial-web-spring, here’s the quick and simple way to do it via application.properties (spring bot App):

server.contextPath=/tutorial-web-spring

And for YAML-based configuration:

server:
    contextPath:/tutorial-web-spring

Finally – the change can be done programmatically as well:

@Component
public class CustomizationBean
  implements EmbeddedServletContainerCustomizer {

    @Override
    public void customize(ConfigurableEmbeddedServletContainer container) {
        container.setContextPath("/tutorial-web-spring");
    }
}

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answered Feb 07 '18 at 15:58

AchillesVan

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the "/" path sends me directly to the tomcat home page, not to my app – Q. Ber Feb 07 '18 at 16:01
try this https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7276989/how-to-set-the-context-path-of-a-web-application-in-tomcat-7-0 – AchillesVan Feb 07 '18 at 16:03
Well, none of those solutions seem to work :( same result – Q. Ber Feb 07 '18 at 16:16
Edit : i changed the Deploy path to mytomcat folder location /webapps and /wtpwebapps (tried both) and still not working.. – Q. Ber Feb 07 '18 at 16:32

Eclipse/Tomcat : tomcat home page is reachable but app is not

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