Root path for a GWT application

[David Wery]

Hi all,

I'm currently building a GWT application but my customer does not want to see anything in the URL path except the domain. For example, I have actually the application deployed on the URL : http://www.foo.com/bar/Bar.html (where bar is the module name) and we actually want only http://www.foo.com.

How to achieve this ?

Thanks a lot for your help.

David

[Thomas Broyer]

Nothing to do with GWT actually, more with your deployment.

Assuming you're use Java on the server too, and deploying as a WAR into something like Tomcat or Jetty, then to remove the '/bar/' context-path, the easiest is to simply rename your war into ROOT.war (for Tomcat) or root.war (for Jetty).

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html#Automatic_Application_Deployment

http://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/Deploy_Web_Applications

To remove the need for the "Bar.html" part, rename your page as "index.html" or add the following to your web.xml:

<welcome-file-list>

  <welcome-file>Bar.html</welcome-file>

</welcome-file-list>

https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/java/config/webxml#The_Welcome_File_List (not specific to AppEngine, see the links to the specs at the top of the page)

[David Wery]

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the answer !

My application is already deployed in the root context of the application server (JBoss 7). The bar in the url seems to be coming for the GWT module name (rename-to section in the GWT.xml file). Is there a way to remove the name of the GWT module ?

David

[Thomas Broyer]

On Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:05:15 AM UTC+2, David Wery wrote:

Hi Thomas,

Thanks for the answer !

My application is already deployed in the root context of the application server (JBoss 7). The bar in the url seems to be coming for the GWT module name (rename-to section in the GWT.xml file). Is there a way to remove the name of the GWT module ?

No, but you don't have to put your Bar.html into your GWT module's 'public' path (that layout dates back to the GWT 1.5 era, that's 3 years old!)

[David Wery]

Ah, indeed I have the Bar.html in the resources folder (src/main/resources). This is not the right way to manage it ?

[Thomas Broyer]

On Thursday, May 24, 2012 11:14:04 AM UTC+2, David Wery wrote:

Ah, indeed I have the Bar.html in the resources folder (src/main/resources). This is not the right way to manage it ?

Put it in src/main/webapp and change your <script>'s src="" accordingly (from src="bar.nocache.js" to src="bar/bar.nocache.js")