> From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Peter Crowther > Subject: Re: Trying to access a directory outside docBase... is it > possible ? > > This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the > list) that Someone may have coded a quick "serve the content from this > directory" servlet, probably based on the root webapp.
A special servlet is not required - Tomcat's default servlet will do the job. Paolo already gave the correct answer, which is to set up a <Context> element for a dummy webapp: > > <Context docBase="/opt/documents" path="/documents"/> > > You must create documents.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost/ and put there this > directive, not in web.xml Although the path attribute must not be used - just the docBase. - Chuck THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its attachments from all computers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
