2013/1/29 Jimmy Johnson <eclectic.sou...@gmail.com>:
> System: Mac OS X 10.8
> Tomcat Version: 7.0.30
> Language: Java
>
> I'm trying to set up the context in an embedded Tomcat instance to serve
> files from a local directory not within the deployed folder.
>
> In the standard server.xml when using the standard Tomcat configuration I
> have this:
>
> <Context docBase="/MyWebApp/images" path="/tmp/images/"
> reloadable="false"/>
>
> and it works great.
>
> I have tried different variations on the following tomcat embedded call
> without success:
>
> tomcat.addContext(tomcat.getHost(), "/MyWebApp/images",
> "/documents/images/");
>
> I also tried:
>
> tomcat.addContext("/MyWebApp/images", "/documents/images/");
>
> It seems that Tomcat does see the external docBase folder I have specified
> because if I specify a path that doesn't exist it complains. It also see's
> the context mapping because hitting the "/MyWebApp/images" filters out the
> request before it hits the spring security filters I have in place and
> reports a 404 file not found.
>
> I am planning on looking at the source this evening and seeing if I can
> track down the file path it is looking at, but I thought someone here might
> know of a solution.
>
> It looks like this grails question was along the same lines:
>
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8332851/grails-add-context-to-embedded-tomcat-in-development
>
> But im not using grails.
>
> Here is the full startup code I am using:
>
> package launch;
> import java.io.File;
> import org.apache.catalina.startup.Tomcat;
> public class Main {
> public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception {
> String webappDirLocation = "/src/main/webapp/";
> Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat();
> //The port that we should run on can be set into an environment variable
> //Look for that variable and default to 8080 if it isn't there.
> String webPort = System.getenv("PORT");
> if(webPort == null || webPort.isEmpty()) {
> webPort = "8080";
> }
> tomcat.setPort(Integer.valueOf(webPort));
> tomcat.addWebapp("/MyWebApp", new
> File(webappDirLocation).getAbsolutePath());
> tomcat.addContext("/MyWebApp/images", "/tmp/images/");
The above two lines. You already know the "addWebapp" method, so why
are you trying to use "addContext"?
> tomcat.start();
> tomcat.getServer().await();
> }
> }
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