I have an application running at a URL like this:
http://myapp.mydomain.com/myapp
I don’t want the /myapp
part in the URL. So how can I get rid of the application name? I want just
http://myapp.mydomain.com
to be the URL. How can I do this?
I have an application running at a URL like this:
http://myapp.mydomain.com/myapp
I don’t want the /myapp
part in the URL. So how can I get rid of the application name? I want just
http://myapp.mydomain.com
to be the URL. How can I do this?
bit detailed approach
First Method:
first shutdown your tomcat [from the bin directory (
sh shutdown.sh
)] then you must delete all the content of your tomcat webapps folder (rm -fr *
) then rename your WAR file toROOT.war
finally start your tomcat [from the bin directory (sh startup.sh
)]
Second Method:
leave your war file in
CATALINA_BASE/webapps
, under its original name - turn off autoDeploy and deployOnStartup in your Host element in the server.xml file. explicitly define all application Contexts in server.xml, specifying both path and docBase. You must do this, because you have disabled all the Tomcat auto-deploy mechanisms, and Tomcat will not deploy your applications anymore unless it finds their Context in the server.xml.
Note:
that this last method also implies that in order to make any change to any application, you will have to stop and restart Tomcat.
Third Method:
Place your war file outside of
CATALINA_BASE/webapps
(it must be outside to prevent double deployment). - Place a context file namedROOT.xml
in
CATALINA_BASE/conf//
. The single element in this context file MUST have a docBase attribute pointing to the location of your war file. The path element should not be set - it is derived from the name of the .xml file, in this caseROOT.xml
. See the Context Container above for details.
1) Your app server needs to be configured to have your grails application as ROOT application
2) your grails application context path should be "/" or app.context=/
You can make Tomcat serve a webapp as the root context by simply naming it ROOT.war
, i.e. take the myapp-0.1.war
generated by Grails and copy it to TOMCAT_DIR/webapps/ROOT.war
.
If you have a setting for grails.serverURL
in your Config.groovy
you will need to override this for your production environment to ensure that any absolute links generated by Grails are correct
environments {
production {
grails.serverURL = 'http://myapp.mydomain.com'
}
}
But in Grails 2 it is usually safe to omit grails.serverURL
entirely and let the app deduce the right value at runtime. You only need it if you're running behind a reverse proxy that doesn't pass through the correct Host
header.