How to set the Context Path in a web application

10 months ago

Noah Thompson

1 minute

To specify the Context Path for a web application, you can designate it in the deployment descriptor file. In Java EE, you can use the element in the web.xml file to set the Context Path. Here is an example code snippet:

<context-param>
   <param-name>contextPath</param-name>
   <param-value>/myapp</param-value>
</context-param>

Another way is to set the Context Path in the configuration file of the application server. For example, in Tomcat server, you can edit the element in the server.xml file to specify the Context Path. Here is an example code:

<Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" />

After setting the Context Path in either of the above two ways, the web application can be accessed through the specified path. For example, if the Context Path is set to “/myapp”, the URL for accessing the web application will be “http://localhost:8080/myapp”.