Well I did find a way to do that by declaring another context just for that with docBase='c:\www\files' for example. Thing is, all this is not really working under the Tomcat bundled in JBoss.
I know the next question is a usual one and forgive me in advance for asking if it is advised to put Apache in front of Tomcat? One option of solving this is having a servlet (Struts Action for example) which will serve the files. The other way is using the 'alias' directive under Apache directing to wherever I'd like in the file system. Which is better? Erez -----Original Message----- From: John Turner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2003 1:57 PM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: directory outside context root If on UNIX or Linux, you could use symbolic links, but this is not recommended for security and portability reasons. So, in general, the answer is "no". John Erez Efrati wrote: > Is there some way to tell tomcat to serve files from a > specific directory outside the context root? > > Thanks in advance, > Erez > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
