How to change the ROOT application?

Question

I\'m trying to change the default application of a Tomcat 6 webserver to a different application than \"ROOT\" (inside webapps folder). What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

ROOT default app is usually Tomcat Manager - which can be useful so I felt like keeping it around.

So the way i made my app ROOT and kept TCmgr was like this.

renamed ROOT to something else

mv ROOT TCmgr

then created a symbolic link whereby ROOT points to the app i want to make the default.

ln -s <your app> ROOT

worked for me and seemed the easiest approach.