Set your application context path in Tomcat 7
Set Context path in Tomcat 7 or more using catalina.properties file, Step 1) Add following lines to catalina.properties file under <tomcat-install dir>/conf directory, #myApp war file version myApp .war=myAppLive -1.0.0.1.war myApp .path=/myAppLive #application deployment location appBase=webapps Step 2) Now update context path in <Host> node in server.xml file in same location, <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps" unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="false"> ... .... <Context path="${myApp .path}" docBase="${catalina.base}/${appBase}/${myApp .war}"/> ... .... </Host>