How to remove app name and port from url in grails

Question

Instead of deploying my app to

http://localhost:8080/myApp

I want to deploy it to

http://localhost

Answer 1

To remove the port, use:

grails -Dserver.port=80 run-app

Answer 2

To change the run-app port, edit grails-app/conf/BuildConfig.groovy and add the line

grails.server.port.http = 80

To remove the context (the 'myApp' part) edit application.properties and add the line

app.context=/

Answer 3

deploy your app to a tomcat server with the war name as ROOT.war. Because war names describe contexts... papa.war will be available through [root_domain]/papa