Tomcat - making a project folder the web root

Question

I have this folder under Tomcat webapps/mysite which is where all my JSPs and other things are located. To access this folder I go to http://blah.com/mysite and it works just fine. However (because of stylesheets and images statically connected to the root /) I have to make it so that when I go to http://blah.com/ it will load the stuff inside webapps/mysite.

I've tried many different things including contexts and setting the absolute path in server.xml... nothing seems to work, whenever I go to http://blah.com/ it still tries to load the ROOT folder... what's happening here?

Answer 1

Have you checked here: TomCat HowTo?

Answer 2

There are a number of ways to make an application the root application. The simplest way is to just replace the contents of webapps/ROOT with the contents of your web application.

For other solutions, please see the following website: http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/HowTo#How_do_I_make_my_web_application_be_the_Tomcat_default_application_.3F

Answer 3

The solution I use is to set this in your Tomcat server.xml

Add a <Context> element within the <Host> like below which sets your mysite as the default web app. Note the empty path="" which makes it the default.

<Context docBase="mysite" path="" /> 

From the Tomcat docs,

If you specify a context path of an empty string (""), you are defining the default web application for this Host, which will process all requests not assigned to other Contexts

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