Deploy as ROOT and SpringLoaded Hippo CMS

Spring Loaded has been working fine for me until I recently switched to deploy as root. (to completely get rid of the "/site" in the URLs of my website)

I've modified the original config brought up by Jeroen here but it's not working. (The files under ${project.basedir}/target/tomcat7x/webapps/ROOT is not updated and the website is referring to this outdated source instead of the up-to-date ${project.basedir}/site/target/ROOT)

What am I missing?

My ${project.basedir}/pom.xml:

<profile>
  <id>cargo.run</id>
  <build>
    <plugins>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-resources-plugin</artifactId>
        <executions>
          <execution>
            <id>copy-tomcat-resources</id>
            <phase>validate</phase>
            <goals>
              <goal>copy-resources</goal>
            </goals>
            <configuration>
              <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/contexts</outputDirectory>
              <resources>
                <resource>
                  <directory>conf</directory>
                  <includes>
                    <include>*-context.xml</include>
                  </includes>
                  <filtering>true</filtering>
                </resource>
              </resources>
            </configuration>
          </execution>
        </executions>
      </plugin>
      <plugin>
        <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
          <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
          <configuration>
            <configuration>
              <properties>
                <cargo.jvmargs>-Xmx1920m -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=${cargo.debug.address},server=y,suspend=${cargo.debug.suspend} -noverify -javaagent:/Users/eric/libs/springloaded.jar ${cargo.jvm.args}</cargo.jvmargs>
              </properties>
              <configfiles>
                <configfile>
                  <file>${project.build.directory}/contexts/site-context.xml</file>
                  <todir>conf/Catalina/localhost/</todir>
                  <tofile>site.xml</tofile>
                </configfile>
              </configfiles>
            </configuration>
          </configuration>
        </plugin>
      ...
    </plugins>
  </build>
</profile>

My ${project.basedir}/site/pom.xml

<finalName>ROOT</finalName>
...
<plugin>
        <groupId>com.googlecode.mavenfilesync</groupId>
        <artifactId>maven-filesync-plugin</artifactId>
        <configuration>
          <mappings>
            <mapping>
              <sourceFolder>src/main/resources</sourceFolder>
              <destinationFolder>@../target/tomcat${cargo.tomcat.major.version}x/webapps/site/WEB-INF/classes</destinationFolder>
            </mapping>
            <mapping>
              <sourceFolder>src/main/webapp</sourceFolder>
              <destinationFolder>@../target/tomcat${cargo.tomcat.major.version}x/webapps/site</destinationFolder>
            </mapping>
          </mappings>
        </configuration>
      </plugin>

${project.basedir}/conf/site-context.xml (I've tried having both path as empty string and "/" and neither works)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/" docBase="${project.basedir}/site/target/ROOT">

    <Loader className="org.apache.catalina.loader.VirtualWebappLoader" searchVirtualFirst="true"
            virtualClasspath="${project.basedir}/site/target/classes" />

</Context>

Because you renamed the deployed application to ROOT you might need to also change the name of the site-context.xml to ROOT.xml. According to the Tomcat context docs it's required to match the war files name.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.codehaus.cargo</groupId>
  <artifactId>cargo-maven2-plugin</artifactId>
  <configuration>
    <configuration>
      <properties>
        <cargo.jvmargs>-Xmx1920m -Xdebug -Xrunjdwp:transport=dt_socket,address=${cargo.debug.address},server=y,suspend=${cargo.debug.suspend} -noverify -javaagent:/Users/eric/libs/springloaded.jar ${cargo.jvm.args}</cargo.jvmargs>
      </properties>
      <configfiles>
        <configfile>
          <file>${project.build.directory}/contexts/site-context.xml</file>
          <todir>conf/Catalina/localhost/</todir>
          <tofile>ROOT.xml</tofile>
        </configfile>
      </configfiles>
    </configuration>
  </configuration>
</plugin>