Deploy war on Tomcat without the war name in the URL

Question

I built a war file called myapp.war and deployed it on Tomcat. I\'ve changed the port from 8080 to 80 so I c

Answer 1

You don't have to setup an Apache front-end or to configure virtual hosting in Tomcat for this. Instead, just deploy your webapp to the "root context". To do this, refer to How do I make my web application be the Tomcat default application ? on the Tomcat Wiki. They describe the three possible methods so you'll be able to pickup the one that suits the best your needs.