I’m trying to deploy a JSF-2 application in the root of my glassfish server

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Asked: May 23, 20262026-05-23T06:50:19+00:00 2026-05-23T06:50:19+00:00

I’m trying to deploy a JSF-2 application in the root of my glassfish server

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I’m trying to deploy a JSF-2 application in the root of my glassfish server so that http://localhost:8080/ leads to my welcome page. For some reason when trying to configure this, http://localhost:8080/ leads to glassfish default welcome page while http://localhost:8080// leads to mine. If I go to http://localhost:8080/<welcome-page> it works, so the context-root seems to work in most cases, it’s just the welcome page that has the wrong mapping somehow.

How to fix this?

sun-web.xml:

<sun-web-app error-url="">
  <context-root>/</context-root>
  <class-loader delegate="true"/>
  <jsp-config>
    <property name="keepgenerated" value="true">
      <description>Keep a copy of the generated servlet class' java code.</description>
    </property>
  </jsp-config>
</sun-web-app>

web.xml (minus security constraints and other unrelated stuff)

    <context-param>
        <param-name>javax.faces.PROJECT_STAGE</param-name>
        <param-value>Development</param-value>
    </context-param>
    <filter-mapping>
        <filter-name>AlreadyLoggedInRedirectFilter</filter-name>
        <url-pattern>/login.jsf</url-pattern>
    </filter-mapping>
    <servlet>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <servlet-class>javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet</servlet-class>
        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
    </servlet>
    <servlet-mapping>
        <servlet-name>Faces Servlet</servlet-name>
        <url-pattern>*.jsf</url-pattern>
    </servlet-mapping>
    <filter>
        <filter-name>AlreadyLoggedInRedirectFilter</filter-name>
        <filter-class>com.xdin.competence.jsf.util.AlreadyLoggedInRedirectFilter</filter-class>
    </filter>
    <session-config>
        <session-timeout>60</session-timeout>
    </session-config>
    <welcome-file-list>
        <welcome-file>index.jsf</welcome-file>
    </welcome-file-list>
    <error-page>
        <exception-type>javax.faces.application.ViewExpiredException</exception-type>
        <location>/viewExpired.jsf</location>
    </error-page>
    <login-config>
        <auth-method>FORM</auth-method>
        <form-login-config>
            <form-login-page>/login.jsf</form-login-page>
            <form-error-page>/login.jsf</form-error-page>
        </form-login-config>
    </login-config>

As a side note, the application is not the default application of the server, I just want it to be deployed in the root.