Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
From: Eric P [mailto:[email protected]]
Subject: Where to store uploaded user content in app
For example, in my application I was thinking I would create
an empty directory under /web/WEB-INF for the non-web accessible
image uploads and another empty directory right under /web for
the web accessible images.
Bad idea. You should treat the deployment area as read-only, at least from the
webapp's perspective. To be spec compliant, you can't even assume that the
deployment area is part of the platform's file system. Better to locate the
necessary directories completely outside of Tomcat's directory structure, and provide
system or <Context> properties to tell the webapp where to find them.
As far as serving the moderated images, it's easy to define a simple <Context>-only webapp
for that location, and let Tomcat's DefaultServlet deliver the pictures. Just create a
<Context> element with a docBase attribute pointing to the approved image directory, and
put the <Context> element in conf/Catalina/[host]/[imageURL].xml; no other structure or
configuration is needed.
- Chuck
Perfect. This is exactly the kind of answer I was looking for.
Thanks, Chuck!
Eric
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