How to deploy .war file in the root directory of Tomcat?

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I have a .war file (MySite.war). When I copy it into webapps of Apache-Tomcat, it unpackage to MySite directory. So in to access it, I need to type in url http://localhost:8080/MySite.
In this case, I would like my site to be http://localhost:8080.
How to do that?
Thanks!

Posted 14-Mar-12 22:30pm

Bun Leap_kh

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Bun Leap_kh · Accepted Answer · 2012-03-15T17:40:00

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I found the solution!
Build our web application to ROOT.war. Then deploy.
Therefore the URL would be:

HTML

http://localhost:8080

Posted 15-Mar-12 17:40pm

Bun Leap_kh