Are you just looking to pass certain requests down the Servlet's filter
chain so they can be handled generically by the app server?
You can set:
LiftRules.liftRequest.append {
case Req("static_stuff" :: _, _, _) => false
}
That'll make /static_stuff/... all get passed through to the web container.
On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 9:29 PM, Grant Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Thanks David,
>
> > I think your best bet is to serve your static content via a front-end web
> > server (I use Nginx) and route all the app-related requests to your
> > container.
>
> I was trying to avoid that for this project. Back to using /content/
> for everything static. Nginx is a great suggestion for this, thanks!
>
>
> -Grant
>
> On Aug 22, 8:48 pm, David Pollak <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 4:51 PM, Grant Wood <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > > How can I tell a Lift app to use an alternate webroot (holding all my
> > > html, static templates, images, etc)? Essentially, I want my
> > > application to look in a folder of my choosing for content, rather
> > > than in the webapp directory as it does by default.
> >
> > > I can't be the only person who has to manage/deploy content in a
> > > separate process and system than the application,
> >
> > I think you're the first person that has asked for this.
> >
> > > so there is likely a
> > > simple LiftRule I can override in Boot.scala to use content in a
> > > location other than the war.
> >
> > I think this might be impossible (or at least very, very difficult.)
> > Mapping from resources contained in the WAR file into the application
> space
> > is not defined by any spec that I know of and varies on a container by
> > container basis.
> >
> > I think your best bet is to serve your static content via a front-end web
> > server (I use Nginx) and route all the app-related requests to your
> > container.
> >
> > > However, digging through the
> > > documentation, discussions, and code (LiftServlet, LiftRules, etc.) I
> > > don't see an obvious entry point.
> >
> > > Thank you for your help!
> >
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>
> >
>
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