Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
Hi,
I am new to Tomcat and JEE, but a new job means to learn new things.
So right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository - mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war - my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
I stumbled over a hint about adding a
Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I also
have to move my project directory which I can't.
So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux incase
you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could drop a
few lines to help me out.
Thanks in advance!
Ingo Gambin
Brilliant Vorsorge GmbH
Worringer Str. 2-4
D-40211 Düsseldorf
Telefon: +49 (0) 211 / 61793-0
Mobil:+49 (0) 176 / 44 66 66 42
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Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
On 15/12/2009 13:46, Ingo Gambin wrote:
Hi,
I am new to Tomcat and JEE, but a new job means to learn new things.
So right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository- mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war- my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
I stumbled over a hint about adding a
Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I also
have to move my project directory which I can't.
So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux incase
you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could drop a
few lines to help me out.
What actually happens when you try to access the files?
Does the Tomcat process have sufficient rights to access that directory?
p
Thanks in advance!
Ingo Gambin
Brilliant Vorsorge GmbH
Worringer Str. 2-4
D-40211 Düsseldorf
Telefon: +49 (0) 211 / 61793-0
Mobil:+49 (0) 176 / 44 66 66 42
eMail:igam...@brilliant.de
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Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 15:01 + schrieb Pid:
o right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository- mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war- my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems
directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in
the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe
reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in
the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving
disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat
CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects
deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I
can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
I stumbled over a hint about adding a
Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I
also
have to move my project directory which I can't.
So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux
incase
you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could
drop a
few lines to help me out.
What actually happens when you try to access the files?
Does the Tomcat process have sufficient rights to access that
directory?
http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFClient - entry servlet and main form
http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFViewer - servlet loaded in IFrame
ok when I click on a linked PDF
e. g.
a
href=http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFViewer?file=document-repository/Folder%202/TestDok4.pdfpage=1;
target=viewer-iframefilename/a
in the PDFClient the PDFViewer should be loaded in the IFrame, which
actually is a blank page that just embeds the PDF-File
...process request-parameters and session-vars...
if(pdfFile!=null) {
output = embed src=\+pdfFile+#page=+pdfPage
+toolbar=0navpanes=0scrollbar=0view=Fit\ width=
\550\ height=\550\;
}
When I call the Viewer with a file 'TestDok1.pdf' which is located in
the 'war' file (main directory of the project), it works well, when a
pdf-file from a location outside the project directory the generated
html looks like it should:
html
head
titlePDFViewer/title
/head
body
embed
src=document-repository/TestDok1.pdf#page=1toolbar=0navpanes=0scrollbar=0view=Fit
width=550 height=550
/body
/html
but instead of opening the PDF-File the plugin opens nothing... well at
least it reserves the 550x550 pixels for the presentation but all is white
nothing is displayed
/opt and recursively all contents have rwxrwxrwx... so I would think
the access rights should not be the problem...
Thx for the quick answer!
Ingo
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Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
On 15/12/2009 15:25, Ingo Gambin wrote:
Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 15:01 + schrieb Pid:
o right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository- mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war- my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems
directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in
the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe
reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in
the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving
disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat
CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects
deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I
can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
I stumbled over a hint about adding a
Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I
also
have to move my project directory which I can't.
So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux
incase
you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could
drop a
few lines to help me out.
What actually happens when you try to access the files?
Does the Tomcat process have sufficient rights to access that
directory?
http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFClient- entry servlet and main form
http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFViewer- servlet loaded in IFrame
snip
So what do your app logs say?
If the viewer servlet isn't working where does it throw it's errors?
p
Thx for the quick answer!
Ingo
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Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
Ingo Gambin wrote:
...
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository - mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war - my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
But maybe you could just create a link, inside your deployment
directory, to the mount ?
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp/docs -- /opt/document-repository
You would have to make sure that the user-id under which Tomcat runs has
read access to that directory and to the documents in it.
Otherwise, can you be more precise when you say that tomcat CANNOT
access the files ? what URL is the client using, and what exactly happens ?
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Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
2009/12/15 André Warnier a...@ice-sa.com But maybe you could just create a link, inside your deployment directory, to the mount ? /opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp/docs -- /opt/document-repository If you're going to do this, be Very Very Careful. Tomcat doesn't follow symbolic links by default, even on UNIX. This is for a very good reason: if you do this, Tomcat *will* follow the symlink and delete your PDFs when you undeploy your webapp. You probably don't want this to happen. This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick serve the content from this directory servlet, probably based on the root webapp. Chris? You're generally the coder with quick hacks already developed... - Peter
Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
On 15/12/2009 16:05, Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/15 André Warniera...@ice-sa.com But maybe you could just create a link, inside your deployment directory, to the mount ? /opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp/docs -- /opt/document-repository If you're going to do this, be Very Very Careful. Tomcat doesn't follow symbolic links by default, even on UNIX. This is for a very good reason: if you do this, Tomcat *will* follow the symlink and delete your PDFs when you undeploy your webapp. You probably don't want this to happen. This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick serve the content from this directory servlet, probably based on the root webapp. Chris? You're generally the coder with quick hacks already developed... The OP already has a servlet AFAICT. It's just not working. p - Peter - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
2009/12/15 Ingo Gambin igam...@brilliant.de
Hi,
I am new to Tomcat and JEE, but a new job means to learn new things.
So right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
my directory structure looks as follows
/opt/document-repository - mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
/opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war - my project deployment file
my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems directory
structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in the
browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe reader
plugin) in an iframe
this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in the
deployment directory.
but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving disk.
it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat CANNOT
access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects deployment
directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I can
not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
application around the nfs-mount-directory
I stumbled over a hint about adding a
Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I also
have to move my project directory which I can't.
So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux incase
you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could drop a
few lines to help me out.
Thanks in advance!
Ingo Gambin
Brilliant Vorsorge GmbH
Worringer Str. 2-4
D-40211 Düsseldorf
Telefon: +49 (0) 211 / 61793-0
Mobil:+49 (0) 176 / 44 66 66 42
eMail:igam...@brilliant.de
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Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/
You must create documents.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost/ and put there this
directive, not in web.xml
Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
Pid wrote: On 15/12/2009 16:05, Peter Crowther wrote: 2009/12/15 André Warniera...@ice-sa.com But maybe you could just create a link, inside your deployment directory, to the mount ? /opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp/docs -- /opt/document-repository If you're going to do this, be Very Very Careful. Tomcat doesn't follow symbolic links by default, even on UNIX. This is for a very good reason: if you do this, Tomcat *will* follow the symlink and delete your PDFs when you undeploy your webapp. Ooops. (Although I did specify read access for the Tomcat user-id. If it does not have write access to the directory pointed to, it should not be able to delete the files, right ?) You probably don't want this to happen. This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick serve the content from this directory servlet, probably based on the root webapp. Chris? You're generally the coder with quick hacks already developed... The OP already has a servlet AFAICT. It's just not working. I think indeed the OP has some kind of servlet, and that one works. But I understood that he wanted Tomcat to serve these documents directly, as files, not going through a servlet. Maybe I got that wrong. OP ? - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
RE: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
From: peter.crowth...@googlemail.com [mailto:peter.crowth...@googlemail.com] On Behalf Of Peter Crowther Subject: Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ? This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick serve the content from this directory servlet, probably based on the root webapp. A special servlet is not required - Tomcat's default servlet will do the job. Paolo already gave the correct answer, which is to set up a Context element for a dummy webapp: Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/ You must create documents.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost/ and put there this directive, not in web.xml Although the path attribute must not be used - just the docBase. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it possible ?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, On 12/15/2009 11:05 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: If you're going to do this, be Very Very Careful. Tomcat doesn't follow symbolic links by default, even on UNIX. This is for a very good reason: if you do this, Tomcat *will* follow the symlink and delete your PDFs when you undeploy your webapp. You probably don't want this to happen. +1 :) This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick serve the content from this directory servlet, probably based on the root webapp. Chris? You're generally the coder with quick hacks already developed... Uh, file-serving code is pretty simple: set the Content-Type and Content-Length headers, open the file, deliver the bytes. It's so popular that it's already been written and even ships with Tomcat: it's called the DefaultServlet :) Seriously, though, Ingo was very close to a working solution: I stumbled over a hint about adding a Context docBase=/opt/documents path=/documents/ directive to the web.xml file Ohh! So close! That should be added to conf/server.xml (but not really, since that's no longer recommended). Let's do it the right way: Put this into conf/Catalina/localhost/document-repository.xml: Context docBase=/opt/document-repository path=/documents / I think you might have to restart Tomcat for it to pick up that config file, but it will create a new webapp context that serves files directly from that location. Your URLs will no longer look like this: http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFViewer?file=document-repository/Folder%202/TestDok4.pdfpage=1 Instead, they can look just like this: /documents/Folder%202/TestDok4.pdfpage=1 You can even get rid of your PDFViewer servlet, because it's probably just serving bytes and not doing anything particularly exciting. - -chris -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksn2SsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDlQACglU4lGn9398YVUBpjMGtbJP2X beoAn1zI4YyBJe9sr2MYZOSdlyCqXi3o =RPfr -END PGP SIGNATURE- - To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
