Gema Berdasco wrote: > For a webapp deployed on Tomcat 5.5.9 to access external resources, > which we don't want to be deleted when the application is undeployed, we > use the following entry on the context.xml file of the webapp: > > <Context docBase="/path/to/resources" path="/contents"> > <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"/> > </Context> > > Having configured this, we can access the files under /path/to/resources > through the URL http://localhost:8080/contents. > > This worked perfectly with Tomcat 5.5.9, but when upgrading to Tomcat > 5.5.10 or above (and we've tested on 5.5.10, 5.5.12 and 5.5.15) the webapp > cannot access the external resources we place outside of the Tomcat > webapps directory.
Does your docBase (/path/to/resources) point to a directory within the <Host>'s appBase? If so, then docBase will be ignored and you should find a corresponding warning message in the log file. Regards mks --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
