Re: Symlinks inside WEB-INF/classes not working for me

2009-07-14 Thread John W
Again, wrong. allowLinking applies to any web-app resources. Only internal Tomcat file access (bin, lib, logs etc) goes directly to the file system. And for what it's worth, allowLinking appears to have fixed it :) It manifested itself really silently and I didn't see anything about it in

Re: Symlinks inside WEB-INF/classes not working for me

2009-07-13 Thread John W
Tomcat 6.0.16 Linux 2.6.18 JDK 1.6.0_05 Imagine a webapp like this: /index.jsp /WEB-INF -web.xml (of course) -/classes --ConfigFile.txt -/lib --MyConfigLoader.class ... and imagine that .class file is inside a .jar file :) Sorry about that. John

How many webapps on one instance? How to tell when to add another?

2007-08-03 Thread Newman, John W
Ok ok i know this is very much not a one size fits all sort of question, but I'm just wondering what those out there have. How many webapps do you have per instance? What is recommended (one, three, 10, 40 i have no idea) ? Hardware specs are probably about the norm these days, 2 G of ram dual

How to have some webapps use IIS security and some not?

2007-08-01 Thread Newman, John W
Hi, This is a nasty problem but I hope someone out there has figured it out. We have been using tomcat 5.5.17, IIS 6, and JK2 happily for about a year now. Up to this point, we have not used IIS directory security to pass the NT username to tomcat. Some of our webapps have no security