Liferay 6.0.6 Tomcat Bundle: Change context path from ROOT to others

moderated from: http://blog.dukefirehawk.com/2012/04/running-liferay-61-ce-on-non-root.html
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Assuming that we would like Liferay to work as http://<hostname>/myportal instead of http://<hostname>/, just make the following changes.

1. Under [Tomcat_Home]/webapps directory

• Rename directory ROOT to myportal
  

2. Under [Tomcat_Home]/conf/Catalina/localhost directory

• Rename file root to myportal
  
• Edit myportal file and change  <Context path=""...> to  <Context path="/myportal"...>
  

3. Under  [Liferay_Home] directory (hint: Liferay_Home is the folder in which the readme.html file is located)

• Edit portal-ext.properties (create one if it does not exist), add in portal.ctx=/myportal
  

4. After restarting Liferay, it is very important to perform the following additional step. Without making this change, a number of portlets such as message board would not work properly. 

• Login as portal administrator
• Bring up "Control Panel" and click on "Portal Instances" under "Server" tab
• Change the default value "localhost" at "Virtual Host" to the domain where Liferay is hosted.

5. Liferay should be working on http://<hostname>/myportal


If you want to change the domain name from localhost host to others, follow this tutorial, http://setup-steps.blogspot.com/2013/07/liferay-tomcat-bundle-606-change-host.html