[opencms-dev] Re: Making OpenCMS ROOT Web App

[Stanczak Group]

So how do I make OpenCMS the root app? Do I need to do a redirect or 
something? How do I make it just http://tomcatservername.com/ and it's 
shows the OpenCMS default site index.jsp?????

Stanczak Group wrote:
> I'm still having trouble here. When moving it to ROOT I still have to 
> use localhost:8080/opencms/. When i use localhost:8080/ I get a 404 
> error from opencms. So it's working in root, but my default site 
> doesn't seem to be mapped that way. What am I doing wrong?
>
> Christian Steinert wrote:
>> Andras Balogh schrieb:
>>  
>>> Hello,
>>>
>>> Just as a note installing opencms as ROOT will help getting rid of
>>> only one /opencms/ from the url
>>> so instead of www.yoursite.com/opencms/opencms/ you need to call
>>> www.yoursite.com/opencms/ to get to your site.
>>> You still need to add a redirect  or so so www.yoursite.com will be
>>> redirected to www.yoursite.com/opencms/
>>> That is why people are using apache and mod_proxy to get rid of the
>>> both /opencms/opencms/ from the url.
>>>     
>> This is true.
>> But you could also edit the web.xml of the opencms webapplication.
>> That's what I did, because I did not want to do proxying or 
>> redirect-stuff.
>>
>> c.
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