>-----Original Message----- >From: Mark Eggers [mailto:its_toas...@yahoo.com] >Sent: Thursday, November 29, 2012 1:12 PM >To: Tomcat Users List >Subject: Re: Context Path for a subdirectory > >On 11/29/2012 11:41 AM, Leo Donahue - RDSA IT wrote: >> Reading the docs: >> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html >> >> "..The web application used to process each HTTP request is selected by >Catalina based on matching the longest possible prefix of the Request URI >against the context path of each defined Context." >> >> If I have a webapp, with a www directory, and in that www directory are >other directories, how would I restrict access to one of those subdirectories >to >the localhost? >> >> webapps >> webapp1 >> -WEB-INF >> -classes >> -lib >> -www >> -directory1 >> -directory2 >> >> Is the context path of directory1: /webapp1/directory1 >> >> Would I create a context named directory1.xml such as the following? >> >> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context >> antiResourceLocking="false" privileged="true" >> path="/webapp1/directory1"> >> >> <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.RemoteAddrValve" >> allow="127\.\d+\.\d+\.\d+|::1|0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1" /> </Context> >> >> >> Leo > >How about: > >http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/filter.html > >In particular: > > >http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0- >doc/config/filter.html#Remote_Address_Filter > > >Although as has been discussed previously on the mailing list, the >regular expression is a bit simplistic. > >. . . . just my two cents. >/mde/ >
Thank you Mark. I realized the first reply I got might be why not try it, my question, which I did, and of course I had it wrong. I thought of security-constraint right after I clicked send, but the filter will also work. http://planning.maricopa.gov/rest - needed to restrict access to one directory of that webapp. It's a third party app, but our data. Leo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
