changing app root for spring mvc app on tomcat

Question

I am working with a sample RESTEasy 2.0 resource on Spring MVC 3.0 and deplying to Tomcat 6. I can get to my resource through http: //localhost:8080/examples-resteasy-2.1-SN

Answer 1

You can set these in your Tomcat server.xml.

Add a <Context> element within the <Host> like below which sets your examples-resteasy-2.1-SNAPSHOT as the default web app.

<Context docBase="examples-resteasy-2.1-SNAPSHOT" path="" reloadable="true" />

This should allow you to access it as http: //localhost:8080/contacts

Set the path to "myservice" like below

<Context docBase="examples-resteasy-2.1-SNAPSHOT" path="/myservice" reloadable="true" />

should allow you to access it as http: //localhost:8080/myservice/contacts