Customizing Wildfly's context root

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In this post we will learn how to personalize Wildfly's context root

Developing for Java Web default context path is generated from artifact’s name without your extension.

For example, if artsmanBlog.war is an artifact, the context path will be artsmanBlog:

http://localhost:8080/artsmanBlog

Working with Wildfly 20.0.1.Final, change the context path is easy:

  1. Create a xml file named jboss-web.xml
  2. Put it inside of the WEB-INF
  3. Define the new context path inside context-root tag

Like below:

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<?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/schema/jbossas/jboss-web_14_0.xsd"
           version="14.0">
  <context-root>/myCustomContextRoot</context-root>
</jboss-web>

Now, the context path will be myCustomContextRoot:

http://localhost:8080/myCustomContextRoot

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