In order to allow my developers to quickly access any temporarily produced
html files created/stored outside of webapps (such as those created by the
jacoco test coverage tool) I want to allow read only access to the root
directory of the development server (firewalled and all access outside of
the LAN is disabled) via tomcat. I can get it to do any directory
*EXCEPT* / as the docBase but a docBase of "/" returns an empty dir listing
(which is obviously wrong):
In config/web.xml:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<servlet-class>org.apache.catalina.servlets.DefaultServlet</servlet-class>
<init-param>
<param-name>debug</param-name>
<param-value>0</param-value>
</init-param>
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>true</param-value>
</init-param>
<load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>
</servlet>
In server.xml (this works):
<Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps"
unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">
<!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web
applications
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
<!--
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
-->
<!-- Access log processes all example.
Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common"
-->
<Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve"
directory="logs"
prefix="localhost_access_log" suffix=".txt"
pattern="%h %l %u %t "%r" %s %b" />
<Context docBase="/fakeRoot" path="/files">
</Context>
But this does not work:
<Context docBase="/" path="/files">
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Aryeh M. Friedman, Lead Developer, http://www.PetiteCloud.org
