Question

I have a GWT application, which I deploy as a WAR file to a Jetty 8 server.

I want it to be accessible via

http://<myserver>/

instead of

http://<myserver>:8080/MyApp/MyApp.html

I understand I can configure Jetty to run on port 80 instead of 8080 or have an apache instance running on port 80 and forwarding requests to Jetty running on 8080 (don’t see a benefit of the latter, though).
but how can I deploy the GWT app to be accessible at the server ROOT?

so far I see I can create myapp.xml in Jetty/contexts folder and put

<Set name="contextPath">/</Set>

there. I can also rename MyApp.html to index.html. but I’m not sure this is the “recommended” approach

Answer 1

ok, accepting my own answer:
create myapp.xml in Jetty/contexts folder

thank you, Chris!