how to change tomcat context path #234

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1. jjaychen1e commented on Jan 23, 2025

   

   jjaychen1e

   on Jan 23, 2025

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   Same question here
2. heliusjing commented on Apr 11, 2025

   

   heliusjing

   on Apr 11, 2025

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   I would like to know too
3. robstryker commented on Apr 17, 2025

   

   robstryker

   on Apr 17, 2025

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   You have a couple of options:

   Remove the out-of-the-box ROOT/ directory from tomcat and rename your war file to ROOT.war before deploying it.
   
   Deploy your war as (from your example) war_name.war and configure the [context root](https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html) in conf/server.xml to use your war file :
   
   <Context path="" docBase="war_name" debug="0" reloadable="true"></Context>
   

   The first one is easier, but a little more kludgy. The second one is probably the more elegant way to do it.

   https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5328518/deploying-my-application-at-the-root-in-tomcat
4. robstryker

   closed this as completedon Sep 5, 2026