context root problem for ear

[cnivas redy]

Hi, I deployed a EAR in web sphere 6.1 and lately I found that in the application.xml the context root is mis spelled. I forgot to mention " / "
<context-root>EIService</context-root> instead of <context-root>/EIService</context-root> . what is the Impact of this mistake. does any body know?

[Deepak Pant]

Generally I have always specified context root without "/".

a. In application.xml I specify context root as:

<!-- Web Modules -->
<module>
<web>
<web-uri>xxxx_web.war</web-uri>
<context-root>xxxx</context-root>
</web>
</module>

b. In "ibm-web-ext.xml" file, in case you are not using application.xml I specify context root as:

<context-root uri="xxxx" />

So I think you are all set. You dont need any additional "/" in there.

However you will have to use it like "/xxxx" in the URL

[cnivas redy]

Thanks Deepak,

[Madhes Rathinam]

I tried putting ibm-web-ext.xml with context-root, but its not picked up. what could be wrong?

I created WEB-INF/ibm-web-ext.xml, with the following content. Prepared the WAR & deployed using Admin Console. But the context-root is still "/"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<web-ext
   xmlns="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee"
   xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
   xsi:schemaLocation="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee/ibm-web-ext_1_0.xsd"
      version="1.0">

    <context-root uri="myapplication2"/>
</web-ext>

[Deepak Pant]

what version of websphere? version prior to 7.0 require .xmi instead of .xml

[Madhes Rathinam]

Thanks for the quick reply Deepak.

I am using 7.0.0.17.

[Deepak Pant]

If WAS is not picking up context root from WAR properly then you can always change it in the WAS console. See if that is working for you or not.

[Madhes Rathinam]

Yes. Adding it through the Admin Console works.

But, the issue is, we should provide a default context-root in the WAR.
It would be good if I could provide through ibm-web-ext.xml, but not sure whats going wrong.

I realized, I may need to add "<webApp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#name"/>", and added as below.

Still, no luck.
When the <name> contained spaces WAS threw up some error ("could not mark ibm-web-ext.xml.. blah"), but when I gave the name with out any space, that error didn't come. But, the context-root was not recognized

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <web-ext xmlns="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee http://websphere.ibm.com/xml/ns/javaee/ibm-web-ext_1_0.xsd" version="1.0"> <webApp href="WEB-INF/web.xml#myapp"/> <context-root uri="myappcontextroot"/> </web-ext>