Customizing Context Paths in Spring Boot: A Practical Guide for Tomcat Deployment

To override the context path in a Spring Boot application deployed on Tomcat, you can modify the application.properties or application.yml file.

Here’s how you can override the context path in Spring Boot:

1. Using application.properties: Add the following line to your application.properties file:

   server.servlet.context-path=/your-context-path

Replace /your-context-path with the desired context path.

2. Using application.yml: If you prefer YAML format, add the following to your application.yml:

   server:
     servlet:
       context-path: /your-context-path

Again, replace /your-context-path with your desired context path.

By setting the server.servlet.context-path property, you’re configuring Spring Boot to deploy your application under the specified context path.

Once you’ve made the change and restarted your Spring Boot application, it will be accessible under the new context path. For example, if you set the context path to /myapp, your endpoints will be available under http://localhost:8080/myapp/endpoint.