On Mar 17, 2007, at 3:33 AM, erockx wrote:

>
> I actually do want the xwiki app to be deployed to the root context.
> Unfortunately, I don't have the ability through my hosting serviece
> to setup
> mod_redirect. Is there some way I can set this up?
>
> I currently have 1.0-beta-5 installed, but I'd be willing to go to the
> repository to get another version if necessary to make this happen.

Currently xwiki cannot be deployed to the root context. You have to
deploy it to the "xwiki" context.

I deployed several XWiki instances in other contexts than xwiki, including one as ROOT. With a little tuning, you can make it work. The only major thing that needs to be changed is the display-name property in WEB-INF/web.xml to an empty value, like:
<display-name></display-name>

If you are using the default database from the beta5, most things should be working already. Not all the hardcoded references to the 'xwiki' webapp have been checked though, so there might be cases where things don't work, but this is limited to some pages or API calls that usually are not used (at least I never needed them).

That said I noticed we had a META-INF/context.xml file with a context
of "/". I'll find out why. In the meantime, try to remove that file
if you're deploying on Tomcat (if you're not deploying on Tomcat this
file won't be used).

It seems to work fine with it, anyway.

Thanks
-Vincent