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I'm running a Tomcat 6.0.28 at port 8080 in a Debian Squeeze box. I'm a newbie in tomcat.

I would like to change the location of manager and host-manager applications. That is, instead of going to:

http://myserver:8080/manager/html

I would like that to be:

http://myserver:8080/somesubdirectory/manager/html

Is this possible? If yes, how can I achieve this? I would really appreciate any help in this.

I've been trying to change the context of /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml from /manager to /somesubdirectory/manager with no success. Also I tried to create a symlink under /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/ROOT/somesubdirectory/manager with no success.

Thanks in advance.

Cheers.

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  1. Stop Tomcat.
  2. Empty the work directory.
  3. Rename $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/manager to $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/somesubdirectory#manager
  4. Start Tomcat.

See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-6.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic_Application_Deployment and look for "Multi-level contexts" for further details.

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Steps to change Tomcat's /manager to /hello123

  1. sudo mv $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/manager $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/hello123

  2. update docBase in /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost/manager.xml, points to above /hello123

  3. sudo mv manager.xml hello123.xml

  4. sudo service restrat tomcat

Done. Refer to this article how to change Tomcat manager webapp path for detail.

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Do this (from now on, I assume we're in the tomcat root directory) :

  1. Copy the webapps/manager directory to webapps/somesubdirectory
  2. Open the webapps/somesubdirectory/WEB-INF/web.xml file with a text editor

  3. To every "url-pattern" occurrence, add the "/manager" string. So for example, this: <url-pattern>/html/*</url-pattern> becomes this: <url-pattern>/manager/html/*</url-pattern>. Save the file.

  4. Restart tomcat

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  • Thanks Lacek. I did that and restarted tomcat but if I try to go to myserver:8080/somesubdirectory/manager/html this error appears: Status HTTP 404 - /subdirectory/manager/html is not available. Commented Mar 7, 2011 at 19:51
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With Tomcat 9 (on Ubuntu/Debian) just go to the path /etc/tomcat9/Catalina/localhost and rename the manager.xml.

e.g. rename it to:

  • manager2.xml for http://example.com/manager2
  • subdir#manager.xmlfor http://example.com/subdir/manager

cf. https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/config/context.html#Naming for the naming rules

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