Removing the 'crowd' Context from the Application URL
For many different reasons, when using the Crowd distribution (not EAR-WAR), you may want to access the Crowd console using http://localhost:8095 instead of http://localhost:8095/crowd. In order to remove the /crowd part from the URL, you can take the following steps:
IMPORTANT: Before doing these changes in your production environment, please make sure that they will work in a test instance first.
Edit file
<Crowd-Install>/build.propertiesand make sure that variable crowd.url is set to the following:# Crowd context root crowd.url=http://localhost:8095/- Run
<Crowd-Install>/build.sh(UNIX) or<Crowd-Install>\build.bat(Windows). In your
<Crowd-Home-Directory>/crowd.propertiesfile, make sure that the crowd.server.url and application.login.url URLs do not contain the /crowd part.crowd.server.url=http\://localhost\:8095/services/ application.login.url=http\://localhost\:8095/Change your
<Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/server.xmlfile to have the following Host section configuration:<Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina"> <Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true"> <Context path="" docBase="../../crowd-webapp" debug="0"> <Manager pathname="" /> </Context> </Host> </Engine>- Perform a backup of the
crowd.xmlfile in<Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhostto another directory. - Remove the
crowd.xmlfile from<Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhostto prevent Tomcat from loading the/crowdcontext. - Run Crowd and access
http://localhost:8095. You will be automatically redirected to the Crowd server console page.