On 12/15/2013 2:43 PM, Ray Holme wrote:
Hmmm - I use JNDI for connections and you lost me with extra paths - although
it appears this is exactly what I want.
<Context path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" >
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext"
extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/><Context
path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" >
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext"
extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/>
This is exactly what I was thinking, I will start digging to learn how to use
properly.
Thanks Mark
On Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:53 PM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote:
Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:41:55 -0800
From: its_toas...@yahoo.com
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Re: linking (limiting???)
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
<MG>...Mark I assume you're referring to Virtual DirContext...?
<Context path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" >
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext"
extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/>
<MG>
. . . just my two cents
/mde/
MG>Thanks Mark,
If you're deploying in the appBase directory, then this should work
(haven't tried it):
<Context>
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext"
extraResourcePaths="/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures"/>
</Context>
Place this in either META-INF/context.xml of your web application, or in
$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[hostname]/[appname].xml
Modify the above to fit your requirements. Note that the
META-INF/context.xml file is no longer copied to
$CATALINA_BASE/conf/[hostname]/[appname].xml by default.
Read the following to understand how these two interact.
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/host.html
(search for copyXML on the above page).
. . . just my two cents.
/mde/
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