deployment - Deploy war on Tomcat without the war name in the URL

Question

I built a war file called myapp.war and deployed it on Tomcat. I've changed the port from 8080 to 80 so I can then get to it at example.com/myapp (where example.com is my host).

How can I get configure the application so that when I go to example.com, it shows my app? I don't want to just redirect from example.com to example.com/myapp - I don't want to have myapp in the URL.
Do I have to set up Apache to serve the pages like this, or can I do it with a virtual host in the Tomcat configuration?

Answer 1

All you need to do is name your war ROOT.war.