How to deploy war files into cPanel and remove the project name?

Question

I need to run my Java application on cPanel. I have successfully installed Tomcat,

I can run my application by copying war file into my

Answer 1

A name of a war file has nothing to do how the project is presented by the container - it's just a matter of configuration and by default containers presents context path as a file name.

And using ROOT.war is just a silly trick, read about Context configuration in Tomcat (I have assumed you are using Tomcat)

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html