Question

I have the following Maven code snippet

<plugin>
  <!-- http://docs.codehaus.org/display/JETTY/Maven+Jetty+Plugin -->
  <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>6.1.16</version>
  <configuration>
    <contextPath>/thomas</contextPath>
    <stopPort>9966</stopPort>
    <stopKey>foo</stopKey>
  </configuration>
</plugin>

I want to set context path to “/” but the Jetty plugin doesn’t respect it, the context falls back to using the folder (or maybe the module) name as the context path. If I set a context path with a name, for example:

 <contextPath>/thomas</contextPath>

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

This works for me with Jetty 6 (Version 8 and 9 see the answer from Michael McCallum):

           <plugin>
                <groupId>org.mortbay.jetty</groupId>
                <artifactId>maven-jetty-plugin</artifactId>
                <version>6.1.22</version>
                <configuration>
                    <contextPath>/</contextPath>                     
                </configuration>
                ...
            </plugin>

Hope it helps.

(Typically I got it working just after offering the bounty!!)