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Asked: 2026-05-19T13:53:31+00:00

At work we have many Spring apps running on one tomcat server. Some of

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At work we have many Spring apps running on one tomcat server. Some of the apps have their own domains with a virtualhost in apache that rewrites requests from /url to /context_root/url.

This is all fine and good except for when I use some of springs tag libs that handle urls. An example is the <form:form> tag which creates an action of /context_root/form and takes the user away from /. Now, the app still works when that happens but management doesn’t want to see the context root.

What is the best way to tackle this?

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  1. Editorial Team

    In case anyone stumbles into this, I did end up finding the answer.

    With Tomcat you can have multiple hosts. So I setup a host with my app as the default webapp. Here’s an example:

    Add another Host to server.xml

    <Host name="lilhug.mydomain.com"  appBase="lilhug"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
        xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false"/>

    Create some files and directories

    mkdir $CATALINA_HOME/lilhug
mkdir $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina/lilhug.mydomain.com

    If you want the Tomcat manager for this host

    cd $CATALINA_HOME/conf/Catalina
cp localhost/manager.xml lilhug.mydomain.com

    Then restart tomcat and you’re good. Deploy the lilhug app to / using the /manager running at your new host or copy the war to $CATALINA_HOME/lilhug/ROOT.war

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