On 12/15/2013 8:34 AM, Ray Holme wrote:
I am a Linux user and love linking things to reduce copies.
Apache/Tomcat (by default) does not allow symbolic linking (nice as
it can cross mounted file systems) except in the top apache/lib
directory. I use hard links in the Application/WEB-INF/lib
directories to reduce copying and help me manage things.
HOWEVER, some applications have special needs - e.g. pictures. You
don't want to always distribute these with the release of the
application (Application.war file), so symbolic links are the way to
go (except for MS land, sorry). The nice solution to this is:
.../webapps/Application/WEB-INF/context.xml which must contain at
least the two below lines:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context allowLinking="true">
</Context>
However this allows ALL symbolic linking in the Application
directory. I agree with the developers that this is dangerous.
Is there some way to allow linking in just ONE sub-directory of the
Application?? - e.g.
.../webapps/Application/images
This would allow all I need to have local images for the application
without endangering other things using a symbolic link.
If you use Tomcat 7, read the following:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Resource_Definitions
. . . just my two cents
/mde/
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