Re: Annoyance in the deployer

[Bill Barker]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Remy Maucherat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Tomcat Developers List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Annoyance in the deployer


Hi,
Not something major, but there's that in the deployer:
               // Make sure there is an application configuration 
directory
               // This is needed if the Context appBase is the same as the
               // web server document root to make sure only web 
applications
               // are deployed and not directories for web space.
               File webInf = new File(dir, "/WEB-INF");
               if (!webInf.exists() || !webInf.isDirectory() ||
                   !webInf.canRead())
                   continue;

Is that really useful ? I ask because it prevents dropping a folder 
containing a bunch of files in webapps (without creating a stupid WEB-INF 
folder), which could be annoying.

Actually, I recently had a case where someone accidentally deleted WEB-INF 
on a development box.  When the Context didn't load, the problem was noticed 
immediately :).

Personally, I like the check (but won't veto the change).  But then, I 
believe that dropping in a folder containing a bunch of static files is what 
the Alias directive in Apache/httpd is for ;-).

Rémy

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