Accessing WAR with www.myApp.com instead of www.myApp.com:8080/myApp, Tomcat 8

Question

i know there are several topics about this, but after days i am not able to localize and solve this problem. the steps i've done so far:

1. installed tomcat 8.5.8

2. changed the following lines in /opt/tomcat/conf/server.xml

   <Host name="www.myApp.com"  appBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps"  unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false">
     <Alias>myApp.com</Alias>     
     <Context path="" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/myApp" debug="0" reloadable="true"/>
   </Host>
   

3. deployed myApp.war under /opt/tomcat/webapps

4. started tomcat

5. check directory /opt/tomcat/webapps and found following content

   -ROOT
   -docs
   -examples
   -host-manager
   -manager
   -myApp
   myApp.war
   

6. check /opt/tomcat/logs and found no error during startup

7. open page www.myApp.com in browser

well, i see the welcome page of myApp, but all resources (.css, .js,...) are not loaded, because /myApp is still present in the src-attribute

<script type="text/javascript" src="/myApp/javax.faces.resource/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/myApp/javax.faces.resource/main.css">

instead it should be:

<script type="text/javascript" src="/javax.faces.resource/jquery/jquery.min.js"></script>
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/javax.faces.resource/main.css">

is there anything important i'm missing? thanks in advance.

Answer 1

with regard to the comments the following changes made it work:

1. renamed Tomcats ROOT-Folder to ROOT_TEMP
2. deleted /opt/tomcat/webapps/myApp and /opt/tomcat/webapps/myApp.war

3. uncomment in server.xml

   <!--Context path="" docBase="/opt/tomcat/webapps/myApp" debug="0" reloadable="true"/-->
   

4. deploy myApp as "ROOT.war"