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

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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 have done with the basic implementation of wildfly to start service etc. but Unable to deploy the ROOT.war in place of Welcome page. I have studied and gone through lot of links, I added jboss-web.xml in my project WEB-INF folder with following settings as I got in links. But I am still unable to deploy the ROOT.war in standalone deployment. Each times it goes to failed. Not getting what I have done Wrong.

<?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>`

I have made the admin user, But for deploying I am using wildfly user setting only. For it also I uncommented the fields from bin/init.d wildfly.conf fly. But totally unaware of the error.

Note: We also tried it on linux machine but ROOT.war is not getting deployed there too.used

Sir, I goin through a e-book there i got some more bat files to be executed. It would be a grd help if you can help me with this as you have worked a lot on jboss. Any mail id sir — Vartika, Aug 27 '15 at 10:40

score 24 · Answer 1 · answered May 05 '16 at 11:53

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.

score 19 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 25 '20 at 09:52

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

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>

empty bean.xml

edited Oct 25 '20 at 09:52

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answered Sep 03 '15 at 06:54

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Still nothing for me, I hace a simple helloWorld servlet, works in tomcat but not in wildfly 9 – Eduardo May 11 '17 at 13:17

Douglas De Rizzo Meneghetti · Answer 3 · 2021-02-15T10:32:39.300

This is a solution for those using Maven in their projects. To make Wildfly host your application under /, you have to name the war file containing the application as "ROOT.war". To automate this action, change the default war file name in your pom.xml to ROOT like this:

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

This way, when deploying the application to Wildfly using Maven, the file is automatically hosted in the root.

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Apr 20 '18 at 11:07

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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">

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score 1 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 25 '20 at 09:54

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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.

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answered Aug 27 '15 at 14:49

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Sir, I am using 9.0.1 ver that don't have this property and I read somewhere that no need to do so just add jboss-web.xml in your application with context path"/". – Vartika Aug 28 '15 at 05:09

score 1 · Answer 6 · answered Dec 17 '16 at 14:34

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

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

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>

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

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