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

[Christian Steinert]

You could 

- do a redirect,
- use mod_proxy, or mod_rewrite  (or sth similar)
- *OR* edit the servlet mapping in the web.xml of your opencms web application
the web.xml is where your remaining /opencms comes from.


hth
christian


> 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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