How do I change in an eclipse web project the WebContent folder to something different?

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With the Galileo release it is finally possible to convert a normal Java project to a dynamic web project. Unfortunately it assumes that the Web stuff is located in a folder WebContent, which is not necessarily the case for an existing project. How can I change it? In MyEclipse it is quite easy, but with a stock eclipse I don't find such an option!

+1 both of the answers work for me, you should accept one of them. — stacker, Nov 16 '11 at 09:24

score 56 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 14 '11 at 19:43

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I am not sure what you meant by "a stock eclipse", but Helios allows this functionality in a very straight-forward way:

Right click your dynamic web project and open "Properties".

Find Deployment Assembly and you should be able to set context paths from there.

answered Mar 14 '11 at 19:43

Mugabo

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This is the easiest way to accomplish this in Helios and later releases. No need to edit files. – Eric Nov 30 '11 at 23:39
I only discovered this yesterday - d0h! – Lawrence Tierney Jun 21 '13 at 10:03

score 25 · Answer 2 · answered Oct 17 '09 at 12:53

I am not sure if there is UI for this or not, but you can edit file .settings/org.eclipse.wst.common.component, and change following line:

<wb-resource deploy-path="/" source-path="/WebContent"/>

Change /WebContent to your preferred directory. I use this for a several years now and encountered no problems with it.

score 15 · Answer 3 · answered Aug 26 '12 at 16:12

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Go in the project properties and do like this example where I use the Maven webapp folder:

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answered Aug 26 '12 at 16:12

John John Pichler

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I think eclipse should be more easy to locate this feature. – John John Pichler Aug 26 '12 at 16:13

How do I change in an eclipse web project the WebContent folder to something different?

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