How to set the context path of a web application in Tomcat 7.0

Question

I know that I can rename my webapp (or it\'s WAR file) to ROOT but this is a terrible way to do it, IMHO. Now I checked out the tomcat doc & it says

Answer 1

Here follows the only solutions that worked for me. Add this to the Host node in the conf/server.xml

  
  WEB-INF/web.xml

go to Tomcat server.xml file and set path blank