I forget: does Tomcat have any problems with *not* having a ROOT context?

["James H. H. Lampert" <ja...@touchtonecorp.com.INVALID>]

I probably asked the question before, but does Tomcat have any problems 
with not having a ROOT context?

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James H. H. Lampert
Touchtone Corporation

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Re: I forget: does Tomcat have any problems with *not* having a ROOT context?

[Aryeh Friedman <ar...@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Sep 25, 2023 at 12:20 PM James H. H. Lampert
<ja...@touchtonecorp.com.invalid> wrote:
>
> I probably asked the question before, but does Tomcat have any problems
> with not having a ROOT context?

Not that I can tell and have been running in this mode for about 5 years now.


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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org

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Re: I forget: does Tomcat have any problems with *not* having a ROOT context?

[Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>]

James,

On 9/25/23 12:17, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> I probably asked the question before, but does Tomcat have any problems 
> with not having a ROOT context?

I always run with a ROOT context just to be able to do things like 
provide custom responses with clients request 
/no-such-app/application.yml and stuff like that.

This may not be true any more, but I have this comment in my ROOT 
web.xml that get auto-built/deployed by my build process:

   <display-name>Dummy ROOT context to prevent 400 Bad Request 
responses</display-name>

So it's possible that requesting /no-such-app/whatever will return 404 
these days, but at one point it returned 400 and I didn't like that.

-chris

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Re: I forget: does Tomcat have any problems with *not* having a ROOT context?

[Mark Thomas <ma...@apache.org>]

On 25/09/2023 17:17, James H. H. Lampert wrote:
> I probably asked the question before, but does Tomcat have any problems 
> with not having a ROOT context?

None I am aware of although there may be some edge cases. Past 
precedence is that any such edge cases would be treated as bugs and 
fixed in the next release.

I can recall one such instance in recent years.

Mark

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