How to deploy war file in root(/) context to Wildfly ver 9.0.1

Question

I am newbie for Wildfly till now I was working on tomcat to deploy my applications. Now just for add on features of Wildfly we want to move on to this. I am using Windows Os, I

Answer 1

If your web module is inside an ear you can you the following syntax

<host name="default-host" alias="localhost" default-web-module="myApp.ear.myWebApp.war">

Answer 2

If you are using Maven to deploy your application, you can change the default war file name in your pom.xml to ROOT like this:

...
</dependencies>
<build>
    <!-- <finalName>${project.artifactId}</finalName> -->
    <finalName>ROOT</finalName>

When you deploy your application using Maven, Wildfly will automatically host it under /. This way, you prevent changing the name of the war file yourself.

Answer 3

For my wildfly 9.0.1 deployment, we did the following two and it worked.

1. jboss-web.xml as described above by other experts.

2. In standalone.xml,

   <host name="default-host" alias="localhost, myAppDomain.com" default-web-module="myApp.war">
       <location name="/" handler="welcome-content"/>
       <filter-ref name="server-header"/>
       <filter-ref name="x-powered-by-header"/>
   </host>
   

Answer 4

Two files have to be added in WEB-INF folder before creating a war file

1. 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>
   

2. empty bean.xml

Answer 5

The welcome page has a note at the bottom,

To replace this page set "enable-welcome-root" to false in your server configuration and deploy your own war with / as its context path.

Please confirm if you did set the enable-welcome-root to false.

Answer 6

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.