I am confused. Your original post says that you can already access your content from http://localhost:8080/web and want to access it from http://localhost:8080/html instead, yet the contents of the jboss-web.xml file indicate that the context should be /web, which means you are still accessing things via http://localhost:8080/web. Or did you mistype the value of context-root? Anyway, using a jboss-web.xml file and setting context-root is the correct way to use a context other that the default (the default context is always the name of the war file, without the extension). View the original post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=4184533#... Reply to the post : http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=posting&mode=reply&a...