On Wed, 4 Feb 2004, Burgess, Jay S wrote: > I'm not much of a UNIX person, but I remember reading about the > "allowLinking" attributes in Context and DefaultContext. Not sure > that they're applicable, but I figured I'd mention them in case they > were and you hadn't seen them.
Thanks for the response. Yes, I am aware of allowLinking, but I believe that's totally unrelated to what I'm talking about. allowLinking is an attribute of the Context tag, and determines whether symbolic links can be used *inside* the context/webapp. I'm talking about something at a higher level. And note that the link is working in terms of Tomcat finding/processing the context configuration file (and finding/setting up the context). It's just that the context configuration file gets overwritten (when it's a link). > -----Original Message----- > From: Milt Epstein [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 10:46 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: context configuration file being overwritten > > On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Milt Epstein wrote: > > > Hi there. I'm using tomcat 5.0.18 basically out of the box. I set > > up a webapp in a directory outside the <tomcat>/webapps directory. > > So I created a context configuration file for the webapp, and put a > > symbolic link to it in <tomcat>/conf/Catalina/localhost. This was > > all per the documentation and the source. > > > > So, everything starts up fine, the webapp works, but the context > > configuration file gets overwritten/truncated (i.e., it is then an > > empty file). The same thing happens with 5.0.16. This doesn't > > happen when I place a copy of the actual configuration file in that > > directory, instead of a symbolic link. (I'm trying to place as > > little as possible in the tomcat directory structure, to ease > > upgrade issues and such.) > > > > Any idea what's going on here? I searched all over and couldn't > > find any discussion of a similar issue. > > > > FWIW, my system is Linux (Fedora Core 1). > > > > Thanks! > > Hate to repost this unchanged, but I'm surprised this hasn't gotten > any response. Any Tomcat developers on the list? Am I missing > something about how context configurations files are supposed to work? > Because otherwise this looks like a bug. > > Milt Epstein > Research Programmer > Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) > Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) > University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Milt Epstein Research Programmer Integration and Software Engineering (ISE) Campus Information Technologies and Educational Services (CITES) University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
