Thanks for your answers. Yes indeed the solution is to create a new
Maven project (I use Netbeans), call it ROOT. Copy the src directory of
the project you wanted to deploy but didn't work into the src dir of
this new project. Now create the ROOT.war and dump that into the appBase
directory. I
I've successfully deployed to the root using Tomcat. I just created
ROOT.war and dropped it in the webapps directory. It seemed to work
without any configuration changes.
Norman Franke
Answering Service for Directors, Inc.
www.myasd.com
On Sep 29, 2008, at 1:27 PM, Jonathan Barker wrote:
It depends. I had a similar frustrating experience on my own system (Tomcat
on Debian) getting a war deployed in the root context.
Depending on the system's configuration, there's the ROOT.xml descriptor, a
ROOT.war somewhere, possibly an override for the ROOT.xml in a /etc/tomcat
directory.
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