On Sat, Aug 21, 2004 at 01:06:33AM -0700, Jack Kada wrote:
: I am running Tomcat 5 on a Unix machine.??I have a
: file (say abc.xml) which is in fact an alias / symlink
: to an actual file system inside the??webapp.
: 
: I found the following on the mailing list which seems
: to deal with symlinks of Jar files - but not files:
: allowLinking = true.

Correct.


: Could you please give me a pointer on this.

Yes: create a portable webapp that doesn't rely on OS- and
deployment-specific features such as symlinks.  For example, what if you
were to start deploying as a WAR file?  Symlinks certainly wouldn't work
from inside there.

Put all needed files inside your context.  Webapps are supposed to be
self-contained applications.

-QM


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