How to deploy .war file with fixed path in Tomcat?

Question

My .war file is created with a version in it. For example: myproject-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war

For next version it would be second version : myproject-2.0.0-SNAPSHOT.war

and so on.

Now if I deploy to tomcat the path would change with every new version as Tomcat just takes the filename as the context path.

Of course this is not acceptable as the path should be fixed.

So I already tried to create a context.xml file in META-INF folder and set path there , but did not help.

What else could I do ?

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 20 '21 at 12:34

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You can include a context version in your war's file name by using "##" as delimiter, see https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/context.html#Naming

It will be stripped on deployment, leaving you with the same context path as before.

answered Sep 20 '21 at 12:34

f_puras

## almost works . But myproject-SNAPSHOT becomes myproject-.war So I still have to get rid of the dash – Toni26 Sep 20 '21 at 12:43
I didn't know about this! Definitely more elegant than my answer. – Stomf Sep 20 '21 at 12:44
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@Stomf This is where Tomcat's manager app extracts its "Version" column from. Haven't seen much usage of it anyway. – f_puras Sep 20 '21 at 12:49
How can I get rid of dash in filename ?? – Toni26 Sep 20 '21 at 12:50
@Toni26 Not sure, but it should be possible using , see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/4238944/ – f_puras Sep 20 '21 at 12:52
hm. no idea so far. – Toni26 Sep 20 '21 at 13:05
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this worked . ${project.name}##${project.version} – Toni26 Sep 20 '21 at 13:09
Well done. I'm happy to see you could solve your problem! – f_puras Sep 20 '21 at 14:18

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 20 '21 at 12:38

You could rename the war file before deploying.

Or, if you're using the api from the manager app to deploy, set the path parameter

http://localhost:8080/manager/text/deploy?path=/foo

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