I have a front facing lighttpd server on my domain that redirects a specific URL to a tomcat 8 application server. So, traffic to mydomain.com/app will be pushed to tomcat.
Tomcat, however, sees the "app" portion of the url and tries to match it when serving requests from the default webapp directory location - resulting in 404's for everything. Is there a configuration change I can make to tomcat so that it knows to look that default webapp directory for requests that come from "/app"?
For example, I'd like to access my web application at mydomain.com/app/mywebapp - tomcat should still look for the application at /usr/lib/tomcat8/webapps/mywebapp.