[FIXED] How do I change the context path of my Enterprise Project

Issue

So my enterprise project name TestProject, which contain TestProject-ejb and TestProject-war, so when I run the project the url is like this locahost:8080/TestProject-war. How can I change this url to localhost:8080/testproject. I use netbean 6.9, I try to right click on TestProject-war folder in netbean, and specify the context-path there under Run, but it still load locahost:8080/TestProject-war

Solution

You need to check that the context-root element for the web module in the application.xml file that's in the META-INF directory of your EAR has been correctly changed.

An example would look like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee" 
    xmlns:application="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_5.xsd"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/javaee/application_6.xsd"
    id="Application_ID" version="6">

    <display-name>TestProject</display-name>

    <module>
        <web>
            <web-uri>TestProjectWeb.war</web-uri>
            <context-root>testproject</context-root>
        </web>
    </module>

    <module>
        <ejb>TestProjectEJB.jar</ejb>
    </module>

</application>

In this example the web module should be available under /testproject of the server you deploy to, so in your case http://localhost:8080/testproject.

(In case you would like to deploy to the root of your server, you can leave the context-root element empty: <context-root></context-root>.)

If you indeed see that your action in Netbeans has correctly changed this file, it may be a deployment problem like BalusC indicated. Check the location the EAR is deployed to and manually inspect whether the deployed version also has the correct value.

Answered By - Arjan Tijms
Answer Checked By - Robin (JavaFixing Admin)