On 5/2/11 12:59 PM, Asha K S wrote: > HI, > > Thanks a lot for helping me on this.Our basic requirement is having two > docroots for same context '/' .But I have read that using '/' as an aliasPath > is not allowed. Thats the reason we had to change the code. Please let me > know if there is any way to do that.
It's a not uncommon requirement to support overlapping sources for HTTPD and Tomcat, usually resolved by some cunning mod_rewrite statements, rather than modifying Tomcat's code. What is the actual problem and why isn't it possible to handle this in HTTPD, by selectively forwarding to Tomcat? p > Thanks, > Asha > > -----Original Message----- > From: Konstantin Kolinko [mailto:knst.koli...@gmail.com] > Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 2:58 AM > To: Tomcat Developers List > Subject: Re: External Docroot support for Tomcat > > 2011/4/28 Asha K S <a...@adobe.com>: >> HI, >> >> We have a requirement of supporting two docroots i.e one of tomcat (webapps >> folder) and also webservers webroot (Apache webservers htdocs folder) for >> same context. >> We found that there is no way to actually do it, > > Isn't "aliases" attribute on Context what is needed for you? [1] > > It is also possible map nested paths as separate web applications, by > naming them as foo#bar - see Naming in [1]. > > [1] http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html > >> we have made some changes to Tomcat 7.0.8 source code and Connectors source >> code so that when Tomcat resolves getRealPath it actually asks connector for >> the RealPath(since the files are present in webservers webroot) .For this we >> have added an extra command like GET_BODY_CHUNK when sent connector will ask >> the webserver for the realpath and sends it to Tomcat server. >> >> We would like to make this contribution to Tomcat source code ,please let me >> know what steps do I need to follow to submit the code and if I have to get >> it reviewed by someone before doing this. > > Create an enhancement request in Bugzilla > http://tomcat.apache.org/bugreport.html#Patches_and_enhancement_requests > > Best regards, > Konstantin Kolinko > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
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