Usually ORDS is deployed on Tomcat simply as /ords, right?

What do you do, if you want a different name than ords, let’s say you would like to see “bruce” in the URL? Simple solution: just rename ords.war to bruce.war before deploying to Tomcat.

But what if you want to have “mod/plsql“, as in http://myserver.tld:8080/mod/plsql ?

There is a not so much known feature of tomcat coming to help: # (as in hashtag).

Here is a quick rundown:

• unzip ords-18.3.0.270.1456.zip -d ords
  extract the ords-zip to directory ords
• cd ords
  change into directory ords
• cp ords.war mod#plsql.war
  copy the ords.war to mod#plsql.war
• java -jar mod#plsql.war configdir /etc
  set the config directory
• java -jar mod#plsql.war install simple
  set ords up, please refer to the docs or Tim Hall
• mkdir /etc/mod
  setting up ords created a new directory with name “mod#plsql”, we actually need a directory structure “mod/plsql” so create a new directory “mod”…
• mv /etc/mod#plsql/ /etc/mod/plsql
  …and copy+rename mod#plsql as plsql into the new mod directory
• cp mod#plsql.war /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/
  now copy the war file to tomcat webapps folder
• systemctl start tomcat
  and start tomcat

Now ORDS is deployed as http://localhost:8080/mod/plsl

Hope this helps! I didn’t know of the tomcat-hashtag trick before and like it a lot!

Next post will be about a proper reverse proxy setup with ORDS and APEX, which makes this post obsolete again.

Disclaimer: above commands are just examples and worked in my environment. Since your environment will look different (and you don’t know mine), you shouldn’t just copy/paste commands. Try to understand and adapt to your situation. Thank you.