deploy war file on Tomcat and run without project name [duplicate]

Question

I 've just created war file of my web project (JSP/Servlets).

Project name: TestApp

when I deply it in Tomcat 7, I run itlike that:

localhost:8080/TestApp/ or www.maypage.com/testApp/

ok, everything works, but I need to run it without project name, like that:

localhost:8080 and on hosting www.maypage.com

How can I do that? thank you.

And I'm fining jsp/servlet hosting, which have that configuration option. do you know hosting like that?

Answer 1

In order to access your application without using the application name, you need to deploy it as the root application. There are multiple ways to achieve it and the related answer describes it pretty well.

Setting default application in tomcat 7

Content copied from the above link:

First Method:

first shutdown your tomcat [from the bin directory (sh shutdown.sh)] then you must delete all the content of your tomcat webapps folder (rm -fr *) then rename your WAR file to ROOT.war finally start your tomcat [from the bin directory (sh startup.sh)]

Second Method:

leave your war file in CATALINA_BASE/webapps, under its original name - turn off autoDeploy and deployOnStartup in your Host element in the server.xml file. explicitly define all application Contexts in server.xml, specifying both path and docBase. You must do this, because you have disabled all the Tomcat auto-deploy mechanisms, and Tomcat will not deploy your applications anymore unless it finds their Context in the server.xml.

Note:

that this last method also implies that in order to make any change to any application, you will have to stop and restart Tomcat.

Third Method:

Place your war file outside of CATALINA_BASE/webapps (it must be outside to prevent double deployment). - Place a context file named ROOT.xml in CATALINA_BASE/conf//. The single element in this context file MUST have a docBase attribute pointing to the location of your war file. The path element should not be set - it is derived from the name of the .xml file, in this case ROOT.xml. See the Context Container above for details.