On 29/11/2011 17:47, Sylvain Goulmy wrote: > Hi all, > > I'd like to know it is possible to have equivalent functionality to the > "extended document root" provided by the WebSphere product. This feature > allows you to define a location outside the webapp to make contribution > without having to redeploy the application. This mechanism first checks if > the resource is present in the application and if not will look for it in > the directory extension.
So the effect is that multiple physical directories must be searched for a given resource? > I thought that the functionality provided by the new attribute aliases for > the configuration item <context> would have a similar behavior, but I see > another operation. First of all it is not possible to set an alias on the > context '/', making it necessary to declare all the directories in which > you want to make the contribution. Also when I set an alias for a directory > present in my webapp, it becomes a priority and files in my webapp are no > longer available. > > Do I understand correctly how this new attribute aliases has to be used ? The alias maps a given path to an external directory. > Is it possible with Tomcat 7 to set up a mechanism similar to the extended > document root of Websphere? Can you give an example of how you would like it to work? p -- [key:62590808]
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