How do I choose the URL for my Spring Boot webapp?

Question

I am using Spring Boot to create a web app, and I am not sure how to change the URL from localhost:8080 to something like localhost:8080/myWebApp.

Answer 1

The issue of changing the context path of a Spring application is handled very well in the post titled Spring Boot Change Context Path

Basically the post discusses multiple ways of realizing this viz.

1. Java Config
2. Command Line Arguments
3. Java System Properties
4. OS Environment Variables
5. application.properties in Current Directory
6. application.properties in the classpath (src/main/resources or the packaged jar file)