Dear Shawn Thank you very much for your email. I just figure out myself... All I have to do is to put the files inside the webapps\<myworkDir>
But... if I want to do this outside the webapps... does it mean I couldn't use the standalone Apache Tomcat 4.0 to do that? Thank you very much. Best regards, -------------------------------------------- Jordan Cheun Ngen, Chong INF-4067 Universiteit Twente Postbus 217 7500 AE Enschede The Netherlands Distributed and Embedded Systems (DIES) -------------------------------------------- Office Phone: +31 53 4894655 Web site: http://www.cs.utwente.nl/~chong Email Add.: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ============================================ > -----Original Message----- > From: Shawn A. Wilson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 8:42 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Local Directory Access using Tomcat 4.0 (SORRY TO REPOST) > > > Jordan, can you please provide the stack trace of the exception thrown by > Tomcat? > > Thanks, > -shawn > > http://www.shawn-wilson.com > > On Thu, 11 Apr 2002, Jordan C N Chong wrote: > > > Dear all, > > > > I am really really sorry that I have to repost the question > cause I really > > couldnt find any solution for that. I really wish there is > someone out there > > could help me me out here... > > > > I wish to render the Tomcat 4.0 to access my local directory, > what I mean > > is, I store some files in a directory, and that I could use servlet to > > download these files. I have tried to do the following: > > > > FileInputStream file = new > > FileInputStream("C:\\Inetpub\\content\\test.txt"); > > > > or replace the "\\" with File.Separator, but the Tomcat 4.0 keeps > > complaining that the directory is not accessible. I presume I have to do > > some modification on the server setting or configuration, but I > have no idea > > at all how to proceed. > > > > Please help. Thank you very much. > > > > Best regards, > > Jo > > > > > > -- > > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Troubles with the list: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
