2013/1/30 Jimmy Johnson <eclectic.sou...@gmail.com>:
> Ah, Okay, so I should use the addWebapp method to add a path to an external
> folder?
>
> e.g tomcat.addWebapp("/MyWebApp/images", "/tmp/images");
>
It should not matter whether it is an external folder or not, as you
are not relying on the autodeployment feature. There are many examples
of "addWebapp" calls in the test cases.
I would not omit those "File.getAbsolutePath()" calls.
I would beware that "/tmp" is usually cleaned when a server is
rebooted. Is it OK to use such non-unique name as "images"?
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 2:06 PM, Konstantin Kolinko
> <knst.koli...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> 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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