Grails 3.0 context path when deploying to external Tomcat Server
<p>I would like to deploy my Grails 3.0 application to an external Tomcat Server instance and not use the embedded tomcat 8 server. The issue I am running into is that there seems to be no way to set the context path when deploying the WAR file to an existing Tomcat 8 container.</p>

<p>In the grails 2.x line, the <code>META-INF/MANIFEST.MF</code> file that was generated contained the Webapp-Context attribute that contained the context path the app could be reached on. With grails 3.0 and deploying the WAR file, the context path is just the name of the war file (without the .war). </p>

<p>Setting <code>server.contextPath</code> in either the <code>application.groovy</code> or <code>application.yml</code> config files has no effect (these only seem to be used when using the embedded tomcat server).</p>

<p>How can I set the context path on Tomcat 8 for a Grails 3.0 war file?</p>