Define Servlet Context in WAR-File

Question

How can I tell e.g. Tomcat to use a specific context path when given my WAR-File?

Example: I have a war file created by maven build and the resulting name of the fil

Answer 1

I found an easy solution to keep war file name and choose the context-path.

You just have to deploy your war outside of the Host's appBase and to create a link inside the appBase directory.

Ex. :

ln -sf ${CATALINA_HOME}/wars/myapp-0.0.8-SNAPSHOT.war ${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps/myapp.war

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