Removing the 'crowd' Context from the Application URL

For many different reasons, when using the Crowd distribution, you may want to access the Crowd console using http://localhost:8095 instead of http://localhost:8095/crowd.

To remove the /crowd part from the URL:

1. In <Crowd-Install>/build.properties set the crowd.url variable to the following:

   # Crowd context root
   
   crowd.url=http://localhost:8095/
   

2. Run <Crowd-Install>/build.sh (UNIX) or <Crowd-Install>\build.bat (Windows).

3. Change your <Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/server.xml file to include the following element in the Host section configuration:

   <Context path="" docBase="../../crowd-webapp" debug="0">
       <Manager pathname="" />
   </Context>

   Sample Host 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>
                     <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve"
                         showReport="true"
                         showServerInfo="false" />
               </Host>
          </Engine>
   

4. Perform a backup of the crowd.xml file in <Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost to another directory. 
5. From <Crowd-Install>/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost, remove the crowd.xml file to prevent Tomcat from loading the /crowd context. 
6. After the restart, in the Server Settings screen, change the base URL.