Hmmm - I use JNDI for connections and you lost me with extra paths - although it appears this is exactly what I want.
<Context path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" > <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext" extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/><Context path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" > <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext" extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/> This is exactly what I was thinking, I will start digging to learn how to use properly. Thanks Mark On Sunday, December 15, 2013 4:53 PM, Martin Gainty <mgai...@hotmail.com> wrote: > Date: Sun, 15 Dec 2013 12:41:55 -0800 > From: its_toas...@yahoo.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: linking (limiting???) > > On 12/15/2013 8:34 AM, Ray Holme wrote: > > I am a Linux user and love linking things to reduce copies. > > > > Apache/Tomcat (by default) does not allow symbolic linking (nice as > > it can cross mounted file systems) except in the top apache/lib > > directory. I use hard links in the Application/WEB-INF/lib > > directories to reduce copying and help me manage things. > > > > HOWEVER, some applications have special needs - e.g. pictures. You > > don't want to always distribute these with the release of the > > application (Application.war file), so symbolic links are the way to > > go (except for MS land, sorry). The nice solution to this is: > > .../webapps/Application/WEB-INF/context.xml which must contain at > > least the two below lines: > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context allowLinking="true"> > > </Context> > > > > > > However this allows ALL symbolic linking in the Application > > directory. I agree with the developers that this is dangerous. > > > > Is there some way to allow linking in just ONE sub-directory of the > > Application?? - e.g. > > > > .../webapps/Application/images > > > > This would allow all I need to have local images for the application > > without endangering other things using a symbolic link. > > > > If you use Tomcat 7, read the following: > > http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Resource_Definitions <MG>...Mark I assume you're referring to Virtual DirContext...? <Context path="/mywebapp" docBase="/Users/theuser/mywebapp/src/main/webapp" > <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.VirtualDirContext" extraResourcePaths="/WEB-INF/classes=/Users/theuser/mywebapp/target/classes,/pictures=/Users/theuser/mypictures,/movies=/Users/theuser/mymovies"/> <MG> > . . . just my two cents > /mde/ MG>Thanks Mark, > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >
