Just a small correction:
1. Make a file called
${catalina.base}/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml that contains:
instead of
1. Make a file called
${catalina.base}/conf/Catalina/localhost.ROOT.xml that contains:
On 1/29/12, Borut Hadžialić <borut.hadzia...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> the best way is to deploy your application to run inside tomcat
> without a context path - eg. to be available at http://localhost:8080/
> instead of http://localhost:8080/myApplication and use your apache
> reverse proxying / virtual host as it is.
>
> Trying to strip application context in virtual host configuration in
> my expirience was troublesome in some of my expiriences and now I
> always try to avoid it.
>
> What do you mean exactly by "without deploying it as ROOT.war"?
>
> You can set the context path of your Tomcat deployed applications to
> whatever you want - context path doesn't have to be the same as .war
> archive name. Just stop using deployment trough webapps directory and
> start using context files inside tomcat-x.x.x/conf directory to define
> your applications (all explained here
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html ), for
> example:
>
> 1. Make a file called
> ${catalina.base}/conf/Catalina/localhost.ROOT.xml that contains:
>
> <?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
> <Context docBase="${catalina.base}/war/myApplication.war" path="">
> <Manager pathname=""/>
> </Context>
>
> 2. Copy you myApplication.war to ${catalina.base}/war - or some other
> directory if you want to arange things differently.
>
> 3. Remove myApplication.war from ${catalina.base}/webapps
>
> Where ${catalina.base} is you current tomcat installation (or base
> instance) where you are currently deploying you app.
>
>
>
> On 1/29/12, Thomas Rohde <t...@ordix.de> wrote:
>>> I'm running tomcat 6 behind apache.
>>>
>>> I currently have an application deployed as "myApplication" and it is
>>> available at "http://www.mydomain.com/myApplication";.
>>>
>>> How can I make this application available at "http://www.mydomain.com";
>>> without deploying it as ROOT.war?
>>>
>>> My server is running Ubuntu 10.04.
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Dean Del Ponte
>>>
>>
>> You could use a rewrite rule to achieve that:
>>
>> RewriteEngine On
>> RewriteRule ^/$ /myApplication/ [PT]
>> JkMount /myApplication* tomcat
>>
>> Works for me very well.
>>
>> Thomas
>>
>>
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