How to deploy war file in root(/) context to Wildfly ver 9.0.1

Question

I am newbie for Wildfly till now I was working on tomcat to deploy my applications. Now just for add on features of Wildfly we want to move on to this. I am using Windows Os, I have done with the basic implementation of wildfly to start service etc. but Unable to deploy the ROOT.war in place of Welcome page. I have studied and gone through lot of links, I added jboss-web.xml in my project WEB-INF folder with following settings as I got in links. But I am still unable to deploy the ROOT.war in standalone deployment. Each times it goes to failed. Not getting what I have done Wrong.

`<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
   <jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"
     xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
      xsi:schemaLocation="
      http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee
      http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_5_1.xsd">
      <context-root>/</context-root>
     </jboss-web>`

I have made the admin user, But for deploying I am using wildfly user setting only. For it also I uncommented the fields from bin/init.d wildfly.conf fly. But totally unaware of the error.

Note: We also tried it on linux machine but ROOT.war is not getting deployed there too.used

Answer 1

To override the welcome webapp with Wildfly, you need to create a jboss-web.xml in the WEB-INF of your webapp with this content:

<jboss-web>
    <context-root>/</context-root>
</jboss-web>

But if you try to access to the root directory (e.g. http://localhost:8080/) you will still have the default welcome content. To remove it, you just need to rename the directory welcome-content in the Wildfly directory.

Answer 2

two files have to be added in WEB-INF folder before making war file 1. jboss-web.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 <jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee"
 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
  xsi:schemaLocation="
  http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee
  http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_5_1.xsd">
  <context-root>/</context-root>
 </jboss-web>

2. empty bean.xml

Answer 3

If you are using Maven to deploy your application, you can change the default war file name in your pom.xml to ROOT like this:

...
</dependencies>
<build>
    <!-- <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName> -->
    <finalName>ROOT</finalName>

When you deploy your application using Maven, Wildfly will automatically host it under /. This way, you prevent changing the name of the war file yourself.

Answer 4

The welcome page has a note at the bottom,

To replace this page set "enable-welcome-root" to false in your server configuration and deploy your own war with / as its context path.

Please confirm if you did set the enable-welcome-root to false.

Hope that helps

Answer 5

For my wildfly 9.0.1 deployment, we did the following two and it worked.

1. jboss-web.xml as described above by other experts.

2. In standalone.xml,

   <host name="default-host" alias="localhost, myAppDomain.com" default-web-module="myApp.war">
       <location name="/" handler="welcome-content"/>
       <filter-ref name="server-header"/>
       <filter-ref name="x-powered-by-header"/>
   </host>
   

Answer 6

If your web module is inside an ear you can you the following syntax

<host name="default-host" alias="localhost" default-web-module="myApp.ear.myWebApp.war">