All this is brittle, at least special! Please use the temp dir the servlet context will offer you. Tomcat and Jetty offer one.
Heiko On Monday, November 30, 2009, jhonig <al...@xs4all.nl> wrote: > Marius, > > I tried to create a link from the webapp dir to another location with > rw-access, but that was not allowed... My conclusion was that you > can't have symbolic links to locations outside the war. > > My problem is that there are three different locations that could all > be interpreted as a "root" for looking up resources. I've found > nothing > suggesting one over the other, and none of them works. I assume > there are more variables involved that I don't even know of. > > Job > > On Nov 30, 10:27 pm, Marius <marius.dan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Ok I may be missing something essential from all this thread but why >> not use a folder from the user's home directory? If your app runs say >> under "jetty" OS user should heve read/write rights to write on the >> home user file-system. Even if not (although I haven't encountered the >> case) those rights can be granted by an admin. So why do you need >> "special" container allocated locations to write files? >> >> Br's, >> Marius >> >> On Nov 30, 11:18 pm, jhonig <al...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> > Hi Tim, Jeppe, and others who have replied... >> >> > I have spent a few more hours, but there are just too many variables >> > and I haven't been able to figure them out. >> > I logged the various locations (running under a standalone jetty, not >> > mvn jetty:run, and got this: >> >> > INFO - TEMP = /tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_8080_tent. >> > 0.1.SNAPSHOT.war____vtra6b >> > INFO - REAL = /tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_8080_tent. >> > 0.1.SNAPSHOT.war____vtra6b/webapp >> > INFO - URL = file:/tmp/Jetty_0_0_0_0_8080_tent. >> > 0.1.SNAPSHOT.war____vtra6b/webapp/WEB-INF/classes/ >> >> > I tried to access images, both from the HTML served to my browser and >> > from Scala snippets. I used the >> > following paths: >> >> > Images/testimage.jpg >> > work/Images/testimage.jpg >> > classes/work/Images/testimage.jpg >> > WEB-INF/classes/work/Images/testimage.jpg. >> >> > The latter path is what I see in my .war file... I have no special >> > filters. I tried to add entries to my site map, >> > but none of them worked. About to give up. Hope somebody will help >> > me. >> >> > Job H. >> >> > On Nov 28, 3:14 pm, jhonig <al...@xs4all.nl> wrote: >> >> > > Dear Tim and Heiko, >> >> > > I tested a few things under mvn jetty:run...: >> >> > > getRealPath gives me "...../src/main/webapp" >> > > the temp attribute is set to "...../target/work" >> > > and the location is "...../target/classes" >> >> > > While the war contains "classes/work" which is again different... I >> > > didn't manage to get jetty to serve contents from any other directory >> > > than the first one. >> >> > > Didn't try to run it on the standalone jetty, since I still don't know >> > > how >> > > to tell jetty to serve contents that is not under the webapp >> > > directory. >> > > Probably have to do something with the site map which I don't fully >> > > understand. >> >> > > Guess my main problem is that I don't have any experience in this >> > > field (jetty/lift) and thought it wouldn't be to difficult to port my >> > > website >> > > to lift and enhance it a little on the fly. >> >> > > To be continued... >> >> > > Job Honig >> >> > > On Nov 28, 12:52 am, Timothy Perrett <timo...@getintheloop.eu> wrote: >> >> > > > Here's a nugget of information for you that will help (as I do >> > > > something similar to what you want in one of my applications): >> >> > > > val protectionDomain: ProtectionDomain = >> > > > classOf[bootstrap.liftweb.Boot].getProtectionDomain() >> > > > val location: URL = protectionDomain.getCodeSource().getLocation() >> >> > > > Print the value of location, and that will get you headed in the right >> > > > direction ;-) Moreover, if your using jetty, if there is a "work" >> > > > directory next to where the war file is, jetty will automatically >> > > > expand the war into that work folder... if not, it makes a temp >> > > > directory in the relevant OS temp directory (/var/tmp on *nix OS) >> >> > > > Godspeed. >> >> > > > Tim. >> >> > > > On 27 Nov 2009, at 21:49, Heiko Seeberger wrote: >> >> > > > > Job, >> >> > -- Heiko Seeberger My job: weiglewilczek.com My blog: heikoseeberger.name Follow me: twitter.com/hseeberger OSGi on Scala: scalamodules.org Lift, the simply functional web framework: liftweb.net -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to lift...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to liftweb+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
