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Brett Conoly	:	Hey All,
		We have liferay deployed under a context root /admin and any wars we deploy into liferay need to have their own context path, /mywar. I just recently tried setting the context-root in my war's jboss-web.xml to /admin/mywar to server resources off of this context path but unfortunately whenever I use PortletRequest.getContextPath() it returns /mywar to me instead of /admin/mywar as expected.
		Does anyone know why this would be?
		Thanks in advance
Sandeep Nair	:	Hi,
		Set the following property in portal-ext.properties
		Regards, Sandeep
Brett Conoly	:	Hmmm, I actually have that set to /admin already. Liferay is served off of that context path but I'm deploying another war with my portlet to the jboss server. In my jboss-web.xml I have my context root set as /admin/mywar but when i do PortletRequest.getContextPath() it returns /mywar.
		Any ideas?
Mazhar Anwar	:	Can you please confirm? Is your mywar.war file is getting deployed under /admin folder?
		I think it is different application context and not inside the admin application(As admin is your liferay instance).
Brett Conoly	:	You're right, mywar is deployed along side the ROOT.war and has its own context but I'm setting the context-root to explicitly point to /admin/mywar. When making requests, the only way to retrieve my resources is to make a request to www.mydomain.com/admin/mywar/css/my.css but when using request.getContextPath()/css/my.css the path returns as www.mydomain.com/mywar/css/my.css and the content is not found there.
Mazhar Anwar	:	I had the same problem, so as a work around I moved all static contents to web-server to serve directly and made it available as in your case www.mydomain.com/mywar/css/my.css.
		Can you give a try to some methods of ThemeDisplay Object such that themeDisplay.getPathMain() or themeDisplay.getPathContext() ?
		I think themeDisplay.getPathMain() should return you "www.mydomain.com/admin/c" and themeDisplay.getPathContext() should return you "www.mydomain.com/admin" or "www.mydomain.com/admin/mywar" . Please let me know if you get the solution .
		HTH
		Regards, Mazhar
Brett Conoly	:	Unfortunately it's not quite that simple, I'm using a third party library that runs off of the PortletRequest.getContextPath() and it can't be modified. If i just update the location of my static resources, the third party library still won't work. I just really need the context path from the PortletRequest to contain the /admin/mywar...
Mazhar Anwar	:	Don't change the location, but can you give a try to ThemeDisplay object?
		Are you able to get themeDisplay object in your class using portletRequest?
		m expecting you will be able to get required path from themeDisplay object.
Mazhar Anwar	:	Hey, I got the solution...
		I have written the code in process action method so here it is actionRequest object, but the same you can achieve with PortletRequest(RenderRequest / ResourceRequest).
		Regards.
Brett Conoly	:	That sounds great for normal portlets but I need but I need this to work across multiple jsr-286 portals and I can't put a reference to liferay in my third party library anyway...thanks for the code share though, I may be able to use that in some future portlets.