Question

I’m trying to develop a Spring 3 MVC application using the Springsource Tool Suite/Eclipse IDE.

My current application context in STS/Eclipse is /localhost:8080/realtyguide/

What I want is to access the application as root using just /localhost:8080/

I tried in eclipse.. Project > Properties > Web Project Settings > entered “/” for Context Root . But this just returned a “404 error – requested resource (/) is not available” after executing the app. And it also broke the app. So I just put context root back to ‘realtyguide’.

I deployed the app to my webhost on a Tomcat server. I edited the server.xml’s and elements and so I was able to bring up the index page with the url http://www.mydomain.com.

However, the links to the other pages are broken. It is also not picking up the static resources for the index page like css and jquery files.

I believe this is caused by my app’s application context of /localhost:8080/realtyguide/ in eclipse (in my development pc). The rest of the pages returned by my controller has a url of /localhost:8080/realtyguide/page_name

How do I change my app’s application context to run as root in eclipse, as in simply /localhost:8080/. So that my pages would be called as simply /localhost:8080/page_name

Is the solution a setting I should make in my web or Spring configuration files or in eclipse?

I’ve tried googling this but have not found a clear, definitve answer. I am very new to this and a detailed answer from you will be of great help.

Answer 1

Thanks to the other answers provided. However, it doesn’t address my main objective – to run the app as root inside eclipse.

This is how I was able to do it. I changed Tomcat’s conyext path in eclipse.

Do the following:

1. Right click on the server name from the Server Console > Open
2. Click on the Modules tab
3. Click on a module then click the Edit button
4. Edit the entry for Path to the desired context path then click
   OK