Jason: If your webapp is also outside tomcat, and you follow the rules ( http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html ), then so long as they're not in WEB-INF they should be accessable to browsers. Then its just a matter of getting the image URL correct (relative or absolute URL, etc.)
If your webapp is someplace besides your picture directory, and you need to keep the pictures where they are and the webapp where it is, you can write code (e.g., in a filter) to grab the picture file and stream the bits back. Much easier to move (or link?) the files into your webapp directory structure, if at all possible. HTH & Cheers, Steve -----Original Message----- From: Jason Abreu [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 17, 2005 11:57 AM To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: using directory outside of webapp Tomcat version: 5.5.9 Tomcat directory: /etc/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/ I have a JSP page that displays search results and, based on a unique identifier for each result, displays a picture of each result. The pictures are located outside of the tomcat directory structure, in a separate picture directory called /data/photos. For some reason, I cannot figure out how to access these pictures from my JSP page in my web application, nor find any resource listed on the web on how to do this. I would greatly appreciate help with this situation. Thanks. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
