Tomcat 6: How to change the ROOT application

Question

Hello,

I'm trying to change the default application of Tomcat 6 webserver to other application than "ROOT" (inside webapps folder).

I Tried googling around but couldn't find anything that works...

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Jacques

Answer 1

According to the Apache Tomcat docs, you can change the application by creating a ROOT.xml file. See this for more info:

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/context.html

"The default web application may be defined by using a file called ROOT.xml."

Answer 2

I'll look at my docs; there's a way of specifying a configuration to change the path of the root web application away from ROOT (or ROOT.war), but it seems to have changed between Tomcat 5 and 6.

Found this:

http://www.nabble.com/Re:-Tomcat-6-and-ROOT-application...-td20017401.html

So, it seems that changing the root path (in ROOT.xml) is possible, but a bit broken -- you need to move your WAR outside of the auto-deployment directory. Mind if I ask why just renaming your file to ROOT.war isn't a workable solution?

Answer 3

Jon, Don,

Thank you very much. I tried adding ROOT.xml to my {CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost. I has the content

where webapps/RedWeb is the location of my root application, but it's still not working.

Any thought on this? Is this correct? Thank you

Jacques

Answer 4

Sorry there's typo on the last message. My ROOT.xml has this content

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<Context docBase="C:/Program Files/Apache Software Foundation/Tomcat 6.0.18 manual/webapps/RedWeb.war">
</Context>

RedWeb.war is the war file for my targeted web app. But this still not working.

Any thoughts on this? Thank you very much,

Jacques

Answer 5

You can do this in a slightly hack-y way by:

1. Stop Tomcat
2. Move ROOT.war aside and rm -rf webapps/ROOT
3. Copy the webapp you want to webapps/ROOT.war
4. Start Tomcat

Answer 6

hi

you should change your server.xml file as below:

from .... to

  <Host name="localhost"  appBase="E:\struts-ITRCbook\myStrutsbook"
           ....

regards.

Answer 7

why it doesnt show my code in this forum?

Answer 8

the code of server.xml in tomcat6 is: