Jboss AS Config - changing deployment context for ROOT.war

[meetoblivion]

Hmm so I've got a possibly odd request. I need to change the ctxPath for ROOT.war in a 4.2.3 AS. I've got another app that's bound to / and they (admins) want to be able to see the original app.

Any ideas?

[peterj]

If I understand you correctly, you still want access to the "JBoss Home page" via some url such as http://localhost:8080/home

One possibility: rename ROOT.war to home.war and move it to the deploy directory

Another possibility: add a jboss-web.xml file to ROOT.war/WEB-INF and set the context (similar to what you did for your other app that is now using the "/" context)

[meetoblivion]

That appears to work. I'm just curious why the default appears to be hard coded somewhere (or maybe it's just in a config file somewhere hidden?)

(btw, I did the previous by setting the path to / in application.xml, so this is technically my first use of jboss-web.xml)

[peterj]

Yes, I think that ROOT.war by default is assigned the '/' context.

(you didn't indicate your WAR was deployed within an EAR, so I had to make a guess as to how you deployed)

[peterj]

It appears to be worse than I thought. There is no "static String" set to "ROOT" which is used to identify the ROOT.war - instead the literal string "ROOT" is spread throughout the code. Along with literal strings for "/", ".war", "META-INF" and "WEB-INF". This leads me to believe that the code must be fairly old, I cannot imagine anyone writing this kind of code nowadays.