Hi, no, you must delete whole the original contents of the existing directory webapps/ROOT and deploy your own ROOT.war web application. Be careful. The `ROOT' word is case sensitive.
The default URL mapping is: http://[machine]:[port]/[context]/[servlet]/ where machine is currently localhost, port is 8080 by default context is in the context.xml file and usualy is the same as the web application name servlet: it's defined in web.xml servlet-mapping tag If you deploy your application as ROOT application, the context path will be only `/' (slash). Chuck explains it to me (thank you Chuck!) one month before. Look into the mailing-list history. Hope to help you Have a nice day! PETR On 2/14/06, Scott Purcell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I didn't catch the other one. > > Tomcat 5.5x on xp > > If I deploy the webapp in ROOT, then the structure would look like this: > $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/root/mywebapp. > And the index.html would still live in root .. isn't that correct. So I > would still need a way to go from the root/index.html to the > mywebapp/index.html correct? > > This is where it gets confusing. > > > > Thanks, > > -----Original Message----- > From: Caldarale, Charles R [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, February 14, 2006 10:46 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: RE: default webapp not understanding > > > From: Scott Purcell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: default webapp not understanding > > > > I am having trouble understanding what is meant by the default webapp. > > (It would help if you'd tell us what Tomcat level you're running...) > > For 5.5.x, the default webapp is the one located in webapps/ROOT.war or > the webapps/ROOT directory. > > > Can I somehow configure this to go to the above > > $TOMCAT_HOME/webapps/mywebapp/index.html? > > Deploy your webapp in webapps/ROOT, not webapps/mywebapp. > > > I get confused when the doc states that the entry in the host > > must also have a context entry? Can anyone clarify that. > > Where does it say that? The current doc states that you _can_ nest > <Context> tags inside <Host>, not that you must. Putting <Context> tags > in server.xml is strongly discouraged these days, but not all of the doc > has caught up to that fact. > > > Here from the docs > > > > Exactly one of the Hosts associated with each Engine MUST have a name > > matching the defaultHost attribute of that Engine. > > That attribute for simple Tomcat installations is "localhost", which you > already have. Nothing to do with contexts. > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > and its attachments from all computers. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
