On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:16:04PM -0500, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
: So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static files,
: how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary URI?

So, are you trying to
1/ have a Tomcat-run webapp serve content that exists outside of the
context path?

2/ setup the static content as its own webapp (context)?


For #1, the (portable, spec-friendly) way is to write a servlet or
filter to intercept requests for a given URI, open the matching file as
an InputStream, and push the data to the client via the Response
OutputStream.

For #2, I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head so I
won't waste your time with something that may not work. =) But it's
definitely possible for a webapp to not exist under the "webapps/"
directory.

Just make sure said webapp has a WEB-INF directory and a web.xml.  Even
a web.xml of just
        <web-app/>
should do.

-QM

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