Pointing to the application directory

Question

I'm been using this (LeaveApp) folder for development. Now I want to point to this folder which is in c:\LeaveApp. How to do it?
Please show the guideline or url if you know it. Thanks.

Answer 1

You know you can deploy more than just the ROOT webapp, right (assuming you're talking about the ROOT webapp that comes with Tomcat)?
The proper way to create a redistributable webapp is to create the complete folder structure as it would appear in ROOT, with just the files from your app, and then zip them up in a war file (you can use WinZip or the Java jar tool to create the war file, just name the file .war instead of .zip or .jar.
So imagine you have a directory layout like this:../myapp/*.jsp
../myapp/WEB-INF/web.xml
../myapp/WEB-INF/lib/*.jar
../myapp/WEB-INF/classes/....You should then zip up the contents of the myapp folder (the myapp folder itself should NOT be in the zip) and call the file myapp.war. Then when you deploy it (for example by placing it in the webapps directory of a Tomcat installation), it will be available on the server as (for example) http://localhost:8080/myapp/ (the name is derived from the name of war file by default).