Multiple contexts pointing to a single webapp

Question

Is there anyway of configuring tomcat to point more than one context at a webapp?

I need to point these two urls:

http://server.com/abc
http://server.com/def

to a webapp running under the context abc.

Answer 1

Tomcat does not allow direct configuring of multiple <Context> elements to point to the same path.

So your options are either deploying the same web app twice with different Context (Not great idea)

or create a webapp called def that has one custom servlet filter declared in the web.xml that re-writes all requests to abc.

Answer 2

If your requirement is for a production app, I would recommend having an Apache Web Server before the tomcat so that you can do this and more.