Hi,
We run a website from a ROOT.war file. It also requires some static resources
which are in another webapplication (themes) and user uploaded content which
is not in source control.
Currently we use apache httpd to serve these 2 directories. The user content is
mounted from a fileserver, the themes are checked out on disk directly from scm.
The main webapp knows where the files reside on disk so it would be really nice
if we could forward the requests for the static resources to the DefaultServlet
in tomcat.
It's possible if we put 2 <Context> elements in every tomcat's server.xml, but
that
doesn't feel good since it would require us to specify the location of the
files twice
(one time in the configuration of the main webapp and one time in the Context
element on each tomcat host).
Looking at DefaultServlet source code I think it's possible to inject a
ProxyDirContext through the ServletContext, which we could modify at webapp init
to serve resources from the directories configured in the main webapp. Didn't
try this because it feels hacky and would make our app tomcat-dependent.
Any ideas on how to go with this?
What looks perfect to me is something like this in a ServletFilter;
doFilter(Request request, Response response) {
String configDir = our.Config.get("themesdir");
File themesDir = new File(configDir);
Servlet s = getDefaultServlet(themesDir);
s.service(request, response);
}
Thanks,
Robbert-Jan Roos
