Typical me having problems that no one else has experienced ever. I hope someone still sees this post maybe I should post it on the developer list ?
Thank you for all who read this post. It is still in an open state and I still haven't found any solution to the problem. Nick. -----Original Message----- From: Nick Lombard (VSP) Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:29 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Tomcat 4.1.x not allowing symlinks for static content. Good day. We are experiencing problems with symlinks in an application (context) directory in that tomcat refuses to follow the link and returns that the resource cannot be found. We are running Tomcat 4.1.12, JDK 1.4.1.01 on Linux. The Release notes states the following. --------------------------- Symlinking static resources: --------------------------- Unix symlinks will not work when used in a web application to link resources located outside the web application root directory. This behavior is optional, and the "allowLinking" flag may be used to disable the check. What we are doing is placing a symlink for common resources accross our applications in each webapp. This contains stylesheets, images etc. These sources are served as if they belong to the application ie. through the symbolic link. We had no problems with Tomcat 4.0.x but now it seems that symlinks are disabled by default. The above entry found in the release notes stating that the "allowLinking" flag may be used to disable the check is all fine and well if I can only work out where to set this flag. No further mention can be found in the documentation or anywhere on this list (If I didn't miss it). Is anyone else experiencing the same problem and could you please reply with a solution ? Thank you in advance. Nick Lombard. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
