Grails

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 1.0.3
• Component/s: Configuration
• Labels:

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It can be useful to be able to define the context path that jetty will use for the application - for example, if you are running apache in front of jetty for development.

The context path could be specified in the following locations:
1. System property
2. application.properties
3. Config.groovy

If not specified in one of these, then it should default to what it does now, 'grailsAppName'.

Some sample code:

In RunApp.groovy:

Change the runApp target to derive the context path:

// Get the application context path by looking for a property named 'app.context' in the following order of precedence:
// System properties
// application.properties
// config
// default to grailsAppName if not specified

props = Ant.antProject.properties

appContext = System.getProperty("app.context")
appContext = appContext ? appContext : props.'app.context'
appContext = appContext ? appContext : config.app.context
appContext = appContext ? appContext : grailsAppName

if(!appContext.startsWith('/')) {
appContext = "/${appContext}"
}

and modify the StatusFinal event to reflect the appContext:

event('StatusFinal', ["Server running. Browse to http://localhost:$serverPort$appContext"])

In the setupWebContext target, use the appContext variable in the webContext definition:

webContext = new WebAppContext("${basedir}/web-app", "${appContext}")

Now, you can affect the context path in 1 of 3 ways:

1. grails -Dapp.context=mycontext run-app
2. in application.properties, define property:
app.context=mycontext
3. in Config.groovy define the app.context property:
environments {
development { app.context='mycontext' }
}

I've attached a modified version of the grails-1.0 RunApp.groovy file for comparison.

For more information, see
http://www.javathinking.com/?p=49
http://www.nabble.com/Defining-the-context-path-in-application.properties-td12976557.html

Thanks.

1. 

   grails-1.0.1-context-path-mod.tar.gz

   07/Mar/08 4:33 AM

   9 kB

   Paul Rule

2. 

   RunApp.groovy

   26/Feb/08 6:09 AM

   5 kB

   Paul Rule

• Assignee:

  Graeme Rocher

  Reporter:

  Paul Rule

• Created:

  26/Feb/08 6:09 AM

  Updated:

  18/May/11 3:20 PM

  Resolved:

  29/May/08 8:31 AM