Default web app in tomcat

Question

Its been few days i've been searching for a solution. My question is..I have to deploy a project in tomcat and make it as a default webapp. What I did is copied my war file and placed it in the tomcat/webapps folder. Started tomcat and changed the port to default. Now I can access my application at http://localhost/myapp .What i want is to see my application at http://localhost. How can I do this?

Answer 1

I was able to do it by adding "Context" element with path="" attribute under Host in server.xml file.

            <Context path="" docBase="/usr/local/tomcat/mywebapps/myapplication">                 <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>             </Context> 

Note: I am using Tomcat 7. Also I had to move my webapp to different location than default webapps folder. I also deleted default webapps provided by tomcat. But this solution works even without deleting them.

Here are contents of my server.xml for reference. Hope this helps.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <!-- Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more contributor      license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with this work for additional      information regarding copyright ownership. The ASF licenses this file to      You under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use      this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of      the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 Unless required      by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the      License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS      OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific      language governing permissions and limitations under the License. --> <!-- Note: A "Server" is not itself a "Container", so you may not define      subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level. Documentation at /docs/config/server.html --> <Server port="8005" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">     <!-- Security listener. Documentation at /docs/config/listeners.html <Listener          className="org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityListener" /> -->     <!--APR library loader. Documentation at /docs/apr.html -->     <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener"         SSLEngine="on" />     <!--Initialize Jasper prior to webapps are loaded. Documentation at /docs/jasper-howto.html -->     <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JasperListener" />     <!-- Prevent memory leaks due to use of particular java/javax APIs -->     <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.JreMemoryLeakPreventionListener" />     <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.mbeans.GlobalResourcesLifecycleListener" />     <Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.ThreadLocalLeakPreventionListener" />      <!-- Global JNDI resources Documentation at /docs/jndi-resources-howto.html -->     <GlobalNamingResources>         <!-- Editable user database that can also be used by UserDatabaseRealm              to authenticate users -->         <Resource name="UserDatabase" auth="Container"             type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase" description="User database that can be updated and saved"             factory="org.apache.catalina.users.MemoryUserDatabaseFactory"             pathname="conf/tomcat-users.xml" />     </GlobalNamingResources>      <!-- A "Service" is a collection of one or more "Connectors" that share          a single "Container" Note: A "Service" is not itself a "Container", so you          may not define subcomponents such as "Valves" at this level. Documentation          at /docs/config/service.html -->     <Service name="Catalina">          <!--The connectors can use a shared executor, you can define one or more              named thread pools -->         <!-- <Executor name="tomcatThreadPool" namePrefix="catalina-exec-" maxThreads="150"              minSpareThreads="4"/> -->           <!-- A "Connector" represents an endpoint by which requests are received              and responses are returned. Documentation at : Java HTTP Connector: /docs/config/http.html              (blocking & non-blocking) Java AJP Connector: /docs/config/ajp.html APR (HTTP/AJP)              Connector: /docs/apr.html Define a non-SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8080 -->         <Connector port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1" connectionTimeout="20000"             redirectPort="443" />         <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool -->         <!-- <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool" port="80" protocol="HTTP/1.1"              connectionTimeout="20000" redirectPort="443" /> -->         <!-- Define a SSL HTTP/1.1 Connector on port 8443 This connector uses the              JSSE configuration, when using APR, the connector should be using the OpenSSL              style configuration described in the APR documentation -->         <!-- <Connector port="443" protocol="HTTP/1.1" SSLEnabled="true" maxThreads="150"              scheme="https" secure="true" clientAuth="false" sslProtocol="TLS" /> -->          <!-- Define an AJP 1.3 Connector on port 8009 -->         <Connector port="8009" protocol="AJP/1.3" redirectPort="443" />           <!-- An Engine represents the entry point (within Catalina) that processes              every request. The Engine implementation for Tomcat stand alone analyzes              the HTTP headers included with the request, and passes them on to the appropriate              Host (virtual host). Documentation at /docs/config/engine.html -->          <!-- You should set jvmRoute to support load-balancing via AJP ie : <Engine              name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost" jvmRoute="jvm1"> -->         <Engine name="Catalina" defaultHost="localhost">              <!--For clustering, please take a look at documentation at: /docs/cluster-howto.html                  (simple how to) /docs/config/cluster.html (reference documentation) -->             <!-- <Cluster className="org.apache.catalina.ha.tcp.SimpleTcpCluster"/> -->              <!-- Use the LockOutRealm to prevent attempts to guess user passwords                  via a brute-force attack -->             <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.LockOutRealm">                 <!-- This Realm uses the UserDatabase configured in the global JNDI resources                      under the key "UserDatabase". Any edits that are performed against this UserDatabase                      are immediately available for use by the Realm. -->                 <Realm className="org.apache.catalina.realm.UserDatabaseRealm"                     resourceName="UserDatabase" />             </Realm>              <Host name="localhost">                  <!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications                      Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->                 <!-- <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn"                      /> -->                  <!-- Access log processes all example. Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html                      Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->                 <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"                     directory="logs" prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"                     pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" resolveHosts="false" />                  <Context path="" docBase="/usr/local/tomcat/mywebapps/myapplication">                     <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource>                 </Context>              </Host>         </Engine>     </Service> </Server> 

Answer 2

Delete the Tomcat/webapps/ROOT folder (if any), rename your WAR file to ROOT.war and restart.