Or if you don't want to do what Darryl is suggesting you can configure your tomcat to use unix symlinks by setting the allowLinking attribute to true.
Then you can simply create a softlink inside your webapp directory that points to your data directory. That will work as well. Arup -----Original Message----- From: Darryl L. Miles [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 12 October 2005 09:59 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: serving content from outside the context John Laughton wrote: > Hi, I hope this is the right mailing list for this question > > I am using tomcat 5.0.28 > I have a simple web app and want to serve up some images in the jsp > pages, but the images are outside the context > > The HTTP statement looks like > <tr><td> > <img alt="thumb image" src="/data/webData/family/DSC01183.JPG"/> > </td></tr> > > The web app is under /usr/local/tomcat/webapp/family On the browser it > only shows "thumb image" as it cannot get to the hyperlink > http://xx.xx.xx.xx/data/webData/family/DSC01183.JPG > (IP shown as xx.xx.xx.xx for security) > > I have read a lot about tomcat and figure there must be a way to > configure server.xml and/or web.xml to allow this to work, but cannot > see it ? > > It is possible ? Are you wanting TC to serve the static files or do you use AJP connector and Apache. The easiest way to serve files from outside is to let Apache serve them and configure up AJP connector, then mount the entire content or just *.jsp pages to TC. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Messenger - NEW crystal clear PC to PC calling worldwide with voicemail http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
