Deploying my application at the root in Tomcat

Question

I have the war file of my application. I need to deploy this at the root level. The current URL is http://localhost:8080/war_name/application_name.

Answer 1

The fastest way.

1. Make sure you don't have ROOT app deployed, undeploy if you have one

2. Rename your war to ROOT.war, deploy, thats all, no configuration changes needed