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JBoss 7.1.1 - Not able to set app to root using jboss-web.xml
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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Hi</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>I have the following jboss-web.xml in my app to set root context.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><!DOCTYPE jboss-web PUBLIC</p><p>    "-//JBoss//DTD Web Application 4.2//EN"</p><p><span>    "</span><a class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_2.dtd" target="_blank">http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/dtd/jboss-web_4_2.dtd</a><span>"></span></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p><jboss-web></p><p>        <span style="font-family: Courier New,Courier,monospace; font-weight: bold;"><context-root>/</context-root></span></p><p></jboss-web></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>But I am getting this exception: </p><p>ERROR [org.jboss.msc.service.fail] (MSC service thread 1-16) MSC00001: Failed to start service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./: org.jboss.msc.service.StartException in service jboss.web.deployment.default-host./: Failed to start service</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1767) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]</p><p>    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]</p><p>    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662) [rt.jar:1.6.0_26]</p><p>Caused by: java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Child container with name  already exists</p><p>    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:804)</p><p>    at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:792)</p><p>    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:356)</p><p>    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebContextInjector.inject(WebContextInjector.java:62)</p><p>    at org.jboss.as.web.deployment.WebContextInjector.inject(WebContextInjector.java:38)</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.inject.CastingInjector.inject(CastingInjector.java:55) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl.doInject(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1549) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl.access$1900(ServiceControllerImpl.java:49) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.performInjections(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1780) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    at org.jboss.msc.service.ServiceControllerImpl$StartTask.run(ServiceControllerImpl.java:1741) [jboss-msc-1.0.2.GA.jar:1.0.2.GA]</p><p>    ... 3 more</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Any idea? </p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;"> </p><p>Thanks</p></div>
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