Deploying my application at the root in Tomcat

Question

I have the war file of my application. I need to deploy this at the root level. The current URL is http://localhost:8080/war_name/application_name.

Answer 1

You have a couple of options:

1. Remove the out-of-the-box ROOT/ directory from tomcat and rename your war file to ROOT.war before deploying it.

2. Deploy your war as (from your example) war_name.war and configure the context root in conf/server.xml to use your war file :

The first one is easier, but a little more kludgy. The second one is probably the more elegant way to do it.