Multiple context path for a single .war

[mrinmoy28]

hi everyone, we have deployed a .war file in Jboss AS 7. Let's assume the war name is TestApp.war. Hence the default context path for this web app would be TestApp. We want to have another context path (let's assume App) which will point to the same web app. This means, if any other application tries to call any resource from TestApp.war, it can be called either of following  -

http://<domain-name>/TestApp/... as well as http://<domain-name>/App/...

basically the question is, can we create 2 different context path for a single .war file ??

[nickarls]

I guess you could have something in front doing URL rewrites but I'm not sure what that is what you're getting at?

[mrinmoy28]

Let me explain a bit. The .war application we are talking about is used by atleat 10 other websites under a brand. Therefore the context path includes the BRAND name i.e. context path looks somehting like /BRANDapplication. Now there is another website who does not want to use the BRAND part because to access the same application they are using a different domain altogether. Hence the new website wants the context path as /application (BRAND will be removed). That is why we are thinking how we can provide these 2 different context paths (/BRANDapplication & /application) for a single web app.

[nickarls]

There is the virtual-server concept, too but I don't think you can get down to a single deployment for your scenario(?)

[sfcoy]

This can be done with Apache httpd configuration.

[mrinmoy28]

Hi Stephen, by apache redirection you can receive the 2nd context path in apache and forward it to the 1st context path. I guess in that case the link which user is clicking might contain 2nd context path, but after launcing the page URL will have the 1st one. If I am wrong, could you please elaborate little more.

[sfcoy]

If your application is correctly generating page relative links then it should stick to the original context.

If your pages have the application context hard coded in them somewhere then you will need to rectify this.