servlet context to tomcat 7 root

Question

Whats the best approach to place servlet context to tomcat 7 root? I have tried this post here but didn\'t work for me; i\'m using Apache Tomcat/7.0.42

Answer 1

Without changing the .war file to ROOT follow below steps:

1. Create a file named ROOT.xml under the tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/

2. paste below code into the ROOT.xml file:

Now you can access your project in tomcat root.

To have a clean project remove tomcat/webapps/ROOT directory.