Hi erockx,
Thank you for your suggestion.
I do what you said. And it works. Furthermore, I found something.
If you have a file named like "index.html" in the root of XWiki, it will go to this page when you visit the
http://localhost/
If you remove the "index.html" like file, and do what you said, everything works well as we want.
Before this modify, I have to type
http://localhost/xwiki/ to visit my wiki. But now I can just type localhost to visit it.I use Tomcat 5.5. Here are my steps to deploy the XWiki as ROOT.
1. modify $TOMCAT/conf/server.xml, add:
<Context path="/"
docBase="D:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Tomcat 5.5\webapps\xwiki"
debug="0"
reloadable="true"/>
after
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"
xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">
2. modify $Webapps/xwiki/WEB-INF/web.xml, find the display-name property in WEB-INF/web.xml to an empty value, like:
<display-name></display-name>
3. Delete the context.xml file in /META-INF
4. Delete the file like "index.html" in the xwiki root if they are there.
5. restart Tomcat.
As these have been done, the url of XWiki in my laptop is like "http://localhost/bin/view/Main/".
But we can see that www.xwiki.org
has the apps url as http://www.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/.
Sincerely, Wang Ning