serving content from outside the context

[John Laughton]

Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list for this question

I am using tomcat 5.0.28
I have a simple web app and want to serve up some images in the jsp pages, 
but the images are outside the context

The HTTP statement looks like
<tr><td>
<img alt="thumb image" src="/data/webData/family/DSC01183.JPG"/>
</td></tr>

The web app is under /usr/local/tomcat/webapp/family
On the browser it only shows "thumb image" as it cannot get to the 
hyperlink http://xx.xx.xx.xx/data/webData/family/DSC01183.JPG
(IP shown as xx.xx.xx.xx for security)

I have read a lot about tomcat and figure there must be a way to configure 
server.xml and/or web.xml to allow this to work, but cannot see it ?

It is possible ?

Thanks
John