Apache HTTPD, Tomcat configuration and Tapestry 5 app

A client wants to run their Tapestry 5 app as root - i.e http://clientdomain.com/ - instead http://clientdomain.com/clientT5app/

So lets configure the Apache HTTPD

 <VirtualHost *:80>  
     ServerName clientdomain  
     ProxyPass / ajp://localhost:8009/  
 </VirtualHost>  

And Tomcat server.xml configuration:

 <Host name="localhost" appBase="root"  
       unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"  
       xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">  
     <Context  
         docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/clientT5app"   
         path=""  
         reloadable="true"  
     />  
     <Context path="/manager" debug="0" privileged="true" docBase="/var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/manager">  
         <ResourceLink name="users" global="UserDatabase" type="org.apache.catalina.UserDatabase"/>  
     </Context>  

We need to change appBase to another folder (like /var/lib/tomcat6/root) or move clientT5app out of webapps folder in case appBase="webapps" as default to avoid double loadding the clientT5app.

The context manager is used to manage applications.