How to deploy war file in root(/) context to Wildfly ver 9.0.1
This is a solution for those using Maven in their projects. To make Wildfly host your application under /
, you have to name the war file containing the application as "ROOT.war". To automate this action, change the default war file name in your pom.xml
to ROOT like this:
...
</dependencies>
<build>
<!-- <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName> -->
<finalName>ROOT</finalName>
This way, when deploying the application to Wildfly using Maven, the file is automatically hosted in the root.
Two files have to be added in WEB-INF
folder before creating a war file
jboss-web.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation=" http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_5_1.xsd"> <context-root>/</context-root> </jboss-web>
empty
bean.xml
To override the welcome webapp with Wildfly, you need to create a jboss-web.xml
in the WEB-INF
of your webapp with this content:
<jboss-web>
<context-root>/</context-root>
</jboss-web>
But if you try to access to the root directory (e.g. http://localhost:8080/) you will still have the default welcome content. To remove it, you just need to rename the directory welcome-content
in the Wildfly directory.