how to change context root?

[ryannewbie]

Hello everyone,

I would like to change the context root from localhost:8080/Book/ to localhost:8080/

I googled and followed the steps listed, but it didn't work.

they told to change enable-welcome-root element to false and

create a jboss-web.xml under /web-inf

however, when I start jboss, enter localhost:8080

it still show the default jboss welcome page.

what is the right way to change context root in jboss7?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
    <context-root>/</context-root>
</jboss-web>

[bassix]

In the deploy folder, you will find ROOT.war which is the holding the default context path (/). In order to make your application use the context root as /, you need to rename your war as ROOT.war (and possibly rename the old ROOT.war to ROOT_original.war so that you can retain in case you want to revert back.

HTH,

Krishna

[ryannewbie]

I am using jboss AS 7. under standalone/deployments there is no root.war dir.

however, there is a welcome-content under jboss_home dir which seems like the root.

[bassix]

Alright, I am not that familiar with JBoss AS 7 yet. Still trying my hands on it.

Hope somebody else can answer your question.

[vatsanm]

Ryan,

  In your standalone/deployments dir, you can deploy your app as ROOT.war or unwar your app as ROOT.war.  this will change your root context to '/' instead of /appname/.

So if you do an ls in your deplyments dir, it will look like below.

/standalone/deployments>n-> ls -al
total 24
drwxr-xr-x   2 vzwadmin   vzwadmin      1024 Aug 30 09:08 .
drwxr-xr-x  12 vzwadmin   vzwadmin      1024 Apr 20 14:32 ..
-rw-r-----   1 vzwadmin   vzwadmin      8868 Mar 13 12:03 README.txt
lrwxr-xr-x   1 vzwadmin   vzwadmin        34 Aug 29 10:43 ROOT.war -> /usr/home/vatsan/deploy/myapp.war
-rw-r--r--   1 vzwadmin   vzwadmin         8 Aug 29 10:43 ROOT.war.deployed

[ryannewbie]

It works now. but i did switch the enable-welcome-root to false in case it's useful.

Thanks

[ryannewbie]

here is my steps to change a webapp with / as context root

change enable-welcome-root to false in JBOSS_HOME/standalone/configuration/standalone.xml

make the deployed app name to ROOT.war and ROOT.war.deployed

under /web-inf, create a jboss-web.xml with the following content

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC

   "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 5.0//EN"

   "http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_5_0.dtd">

<jboss-web>

    <context-root>/</context-root>

</jboss-web>

[carlogo]

Hi Ryan, I am using jboss EAP 6.1. and I am trying to set context-root to '/' following your steps, but I get the next messages when I rename my app to ROOT.war.

15:30:18,749 ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-1) MSC000001: Failed to start service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./ROOT: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./ROOT: Failed to start service

  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1767) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1145) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]

  at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:615) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]

  at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:724) [rt.jar:1.7.0_25]

Caused by: java.lang.IllegalStateException: JBAS018038: Root contexts can not be deployed when the virtual host configuration has the welcome root enabled, disable it and redeploy

  at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebContextInjector.inject(WebContextInjector.java:57)

  at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebContextInjector.inject(WebContextInjector.java:38)

  at org.jboss.msc.inject.CastingInjector.inject(CastingInjector.java:55) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl.doInject(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1549) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl.access$1900(ServiceControllerImpl.java:49) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.performInjections(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1780) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1741) [jboss-msc-1.0.4.GA-redhat-1.jar:1.0.4.GA-redhat-1]

  ... 3 more

How did you start jboss with this settings? Any help?

Many thanks in advance.

Carlos.

[vatsanm]

In the JBoss configuration file (I use standalone.xml), the enable-welcome-root is as below.  After you change it, then you can restart the server for this to take effect.

<subsystem xmlns="urn:jboss:domain:web:1.1" default-virtual-server="default-host" native="true">

            <connector name="ajp" protocol="AJP/1.3" scheme="ajp" socket-binding="ajp" secure="true"/>

            <virtual-server name="default-host" enable-welcome-root="false">

                <alias name="my.server.com"/>

                <alias name="localhost"/>

            </virtual-server>

</subsystem>

[carlogo]

Perfect Vatsan! It is solved. I was modifying the standalone.xml file but it is the standalone-ha.xml configuration file by default if you are executing as root user.

Thanks so much!

Carlos.