Ok sorry for that. Finally got the right answer from the archives.
Apparently symlinks have been disabled since 4.1.12 for security reasons. I
noticed in the archives that it was suggested to set the allowLinking in my
server.xml file be enough?
Resources
The security risk are relatively minor if you have control over who can
update your webapp. An example of a problem (if you aren't using a sandbox)
would be somebody deciding to do ln -s /etc/passwd within
$CATALINA_HOME/webapps/ROOT (and letting the entire world know what user
accounts are on
