server.json allows you to package up an app that requires special start settings such as rewrites, JVM args, or heap size, and anyone can run it with the same settings you do by simply typing server start. Make sure to not deploy the server.json file to your production server where it may be web-accessible.
server.json outside the web rootTo help with this, you can store your server.json file outside of the web root and use the web.webroot property in it to point to the location of the web root. This can be an absolute path or a relative path to the location of the JSON file.
When you start the server, you can run the start command from the same directory that the server.json file lives, or specifiy the path to the JSON file like so:
If there is no web root in your server.json, CommandBox will use the folder that the JSON file is stored in. If there is no JSON file at all, the current working directory is used.