Tomcat URL Mappings ... ? 1

[jonalport]

I have a relatively simple question regarding tomcat and URL Mappings...

I have a webapp that I have developed in a folder called 'myFolder' for
example. JBuilder then packs my webapp into myFolder.war when it's
built.
When I deploy myFolder.war to tomcat, it is unpacked into the folder
'myFolder' in the webapps directory as expected.
So I can now browse to

http://localhost/myFolder/login.jsp

which works
fine.
But I wanted to be able to get to my login.jsp page by just pointing
to

http://localhost,

so I placed a redirecting page in the root webapp
folder
which redirected to the file login.jsp in the folder myFolder, but
then of
course I still have the 'myFolder' displayed in the url.

So I guess I have two questions:

1. how do I edit the web.xml (?) so that

http://localhost

goes
directly to
my webapp in 'myFolder' without displaying 'myFolder' in the URL ?

2. how do i set it up so that login.jsp is the initial page displayed
?

I'm running Tomcat 5.0.19 standalone (eg. no IIS || apache etc) on
win2000
server

 

[sedj]

Under your TOMCAT_HOME/conf/server.xml, add a Context mapping thus :

<Host name="localhost" debug="0" appBase="webapps"
         unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
         xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

<Context path="" docBase="myFolder" debug="0"
                   reloadable="true" crossContext="true"/>

</Host>

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[byam]

Alternatively, delete your ROOT directory in the tomcat's webapp folder, and named you war file as ROOT.war. Tomcat will then deploy your applicate as root.

 

[sedj]

Come on byam - thats lame !!! What happens if you have multiple

http://www domains,

all wanting the same "no-context-showing" behaviour ?!!

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[byam]

You are right sedj. Sorry to not mention that my approach doesn't allows cross context between applications.