Symbolic links are disabled in 4.1.12. The workaround is to use a tag in server.xml, though I believe the workaround is broken in .12 and .13. Search the archives, this comes up quite a bit (like every day). We don't use symlinks, so I can't tell you specifically what the workaround is.
John > -----Original Message----- > From: Eugene Gluzberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, November 20, 2002 11:26 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: symbolic links in 4.1.12 > > > Was ... Re: problem with Classloader and symbolic links in 4.1.12 > > ok, i installed ant and am now putting classes in the right places. > > However, it seems that images and plain html files wont load through > symbolic links either. There must be a setting somewhere for this! > > Jon Eaves wrote: > > > > > > it would make my life so much easier since I am trying > to develop an app > > > with thousands of classes and hundreds of packages, > modifying my build > > > system to send all the classes to the tomcat dir would > be a hassle. > > > > The simplest way is to setup the context so that it points to your > > development environment. > > > > There is plenty of great examples of exactly how to do this here: > > > > http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/appdev/index.html > > > > ** Which everybody who is developing web applications really should > > read. ** > > > > The context element should end up looking something like this: > > > > <Context > > path="/myapp" > > docBase="/full/path/to/my/build" > > reloadable="true" > > debug="99" > > > > > <Loader > > className="org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappLoader" > > debug="0" > > loaderClass="org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoader" > > checkInterval="1" > > reloadable="true" > > delegate="false"/> > > > > <Logger > > className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger" > > prefix="myapp_log" suffix=".txt" > > debug="99" > > timestamp="true" /> > > > > </Context> > > > > With the Loader element included, once the configuration is > > done once, you can just recompile your application directly > > into /full/path/to/my/build/WEB-INF/classes and it will update > > the classes nicely. > > > > Cheers, > > -- jon > > > > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
