I made a little web app with Spring Boot with web MVC, it is working fine if I run it by deploying the war or if I run it directly from STS. The problem is that my application is always run with his appname as context app (something like "localhost:8080/appname/") and I can't change it. I tried to write a web.xml with dispater-config.xml but, even if the server recognize it, the path is not changed. I tried to write the method in the SpringBootServletInitializer and setting the path, but it is not working too. I also tried to add a META-INF/context.xml in the webapp folder trought STS (project->src->webapp->META-INF->context.xml) but it's not working too. I am just going crazy with, what should i do to change the app's context path? Thanks
EDIT: I would mount my app in the root context of tomcat
It's built in, in eclipse (STS). I suggest using a stand alone tomcat and not the integrated eclipse tomcat and deploy the war on your stand alone tomcat
Add the context path as a parameter to your #RequestMapping annotation, like this: #RequestMapping("/helloworld")
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For example,
I understand adding specific dependencies like spring-boot-starter-web that contains tomcat as transitive dependency triggers the spring framework to initialize tomcat container but I want to know if we say a spring-boot application is running, does it imply always that tomcat is also running?
I want to know if we say a spring-boot application is running, does it imply always that tomcat is also running?
No, it doesn't.
Spring boot can be used for both web applications and non-web applications.
For web applications you can use tomcat/jetty/undertow/netty for example, its up to you to chose what works for you the best.
If you don't want to run an embedded version of the web server you can opt for creating a WAR file and place it into the web server prepared in-advance.
If you don't want to run web application at all (something that is built around "Request - Response" way of work in the most broad sense) - you can create a "CommandLineRunner" - in this case you don't need to depend on neither web-mvc nor webflux. For more information about Command Line Runners read here for example
You can have an embedded server in your JAR that is able to be run on its own. By default it is Tomcat but you can change this to others, like Jetty. Additional details:
https://docs.spring.io/spring-boot/docs/2.0.6.RELEASE/reference/html/howto-embedded-web-servers.html
If you don't want to have an embedded server and you want to deploy your application you can also create WAR files instead of JAR files. Additional details:
https://www.baeldung.com/spring-boot-no-web-server
https://spring.io/guides/gs/convert-jar-to-war/
Iam working on a spring boot application, we are using war packaging. When i run the application in my local machine with bootRun or in STS,it is working as expected, but when i deploy it in PCF, the context path is not applying. After some research i came to know that server.servlet.context-path will not work in external tomcat, so i added context.xml with
in webapp/META-INF, but it is still not working. The API /test is working but it is supposed to be /myPath/test. I spent lot of time on research haven't found a working solution. Can anyone help. Thanks.
I have a spring boot application abc.myapp.war, that is deployed on external tomcat server. By default the tomcat uses the war file name as the context path of the application deployed so it becomes http://localhost:8080/abc.myapp, but I want to have a custom context path like http://localhost:8080/abc/myapp.
I have read through other post they suggest using context tag in server.xml of tomcat, but there is not clear mention how to use it. Can anyone suggest any reference or way to change the context path of the application.
Other ways of doing this are also welcome.
If you want your app to appear with a context path of /abc/myapp you don't have to write any context file, just rename the WAR file to abc#myapp.war: the # will be converted to / (cf. Tomcat documentation for more examples).
I'm using Sprint boot to run a web application. I did not configure any classes explicitly. I have a strange problem. When running the web server using gradle bootRun, I am able to access files that are directly under webapp folder but not a sub-folder like webapp/something.
I'm not posting any code here because there is nothing explicitly I configured different from a default spring boot web app. I'm using structure as in https://github.com/jhipster/jhipster-sample-app-gradle
Anyone faced this problem before ?
I'm trying to deploy a spring + angularJS app (packaging as war) into websphere (7.0.0.25), but even for the sample app I cloned from spring, I always get Error 404: SRVE0190E: File not found. And even for the spring app, I have to explicitly specify index.html in the URL, otherwise I get the same error. But the angular side is tolerable, can anyone help me with the spring side?
The sample application is: https://github.com/spring-guides/gs-convert-jar-to-war-maven.git
After doing "mvn clean package" in "/gs-convert-jar-to-war-maven/complete" to get the war, I follow the steps here to upload and deploy the war in websphere:
http://www.packtpub.com/article/deploying-applications-on-websphere-application-server-7.0-part1
I also tried this post to set the custom properties but still didn't work: http://frightanic.com/software-development/solution-to-error-404-srve0190e-on-websphere-6-1/
Also, both my app and the sample spring app don't have a web.xml as spring will take care of it. Both apps work fine in jetty and Tomcat. Only websphere has the problem. Besides, I don't know how to manually configure a web.xml if that will be the solution (need to be pointed to more resources).
The URLs I tried but failed to access the app are:
localhost:9080
localhost:9080/gs-convert-jar-to-war-0_1_0_war
localhost:9080/someAppName
Thanks in advance!
It turns out that websphere 7 doesn't support some spring annotations/classes. My solution is to write a web.xml file and turn off spring auto-configuration.