On 21/04/2020 14:20, Clough, Don wrote: > Good Morning, > > Tomcat version 8.5.15 > > Is it possible to remove the tomcat ROOT directory? We have several > applications running on a tomcat instance. I was asked to clean the > webapps directory up and remove any unused folders. I removed manager > host-manager docs examples Everything is fine, as I expected. I looked > at the ROOT folder an there are images, a couple of jsp pages and a > WEB-INF directory. None of these are used by our applications, so I > removed the ROOT directory. Now the server hangs on startup and my > applications don't start. Can the ROOT directory be removed? It appears > that according to the Apache docs it is optional: > > "The ROOT web application presents a very low security risk but it does > include the version of Tomcat that is being used. The ROOT web > application should normally be removed from a publicly accessible Tomcat > instance, not for security reasons, but so that a more appropriate > default page is shown to users." > > I tried leaving just an empty ROOT directory, but it still hangs. Is > there a configuration that I'm missing somewhere that could be looking > for the ROOT directory?
Not in Tomcat. Possibly in one of the additional applications that has been deployed. Tomcat 8.5.x starts quite happily with the ROOT web application removed. Mark --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
