Hi,
Other people have run into this. The allowLinking attribute goes inside
the Context element. For example, from someone's else's server.xml:
<Context path="/myapp" docBase="myapp" debug="0"
reloadable="true" crossContext="true">
<Logger className="org.apache.catalina.logger.FileLogger"
prefix="localhost_myapp_log." suffix=".txt"
timestamp="true"/>
<Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
allowLinking="true" docBase="" />
</Context>
A mailing list archive search would show you more information. For
example,
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&w=2&r=1&s=allowLinking&q=b
I agree that this should be better documented. There's also a possibly
relevant bug in the FileDirContext implementation itself.
Finally, please do not follow the algorithm of "post to the user list,
and if I get no answer post to the developer list". It's not likely to
increase your chance of getting a response, but it may annoy a few
people ;)
Yoav Shapira
Millennium ChemInformatics
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Lombard (VSP) [mailto:nick.lombard@;vcontractor.co.za]
>Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 11:13 AM
>To: Tomcat Users List
>Subject: RE: Tomcat 4.1.x not allowing symlinks for static content.
>
>Typical me having problems that no one else has experienced ever. I
hope
>someone still sees this post maybe I should post it on the developer
list ?
>
>Thank you for all who read this post.
>
>It is still in an open state and I still haven't found any solution to
the
>problem.
>
>Nick.
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Lombard (VSP)
>Sent: Wednesday, October 30, 2002 2:29 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Tomcat 4.1.x not allowing symlinks for static content.
>
>
>Good day.
>
>We are experiencing problems with symlinks in an application (context)
>directory in that tomcat refuses to follow the link and returns that
the
>resource cannot be found.
>
>We are running Tomcat 4.1.12, JDK 1.4.1.01 on Linux.
>
>The Release notes states the following.
>
>---------------------------
>Symlinking static resources:
>---------------------------
>
>Unix symlinks will not work when used in a web application to link
>resources
>located outside the web application root directory.
>
>This behavior is optional, and the "allowLinking" flag may be used to
>disable
>the check.
>
>
>What we are doing is placing a symlink for common resources accross our
>applications in each webapp. This contains stylesheets, images etc.
These
>sources are served as if they belong to the application ie. through the
>symbolic link.
>
>We had no problems with Tomcat 4.0.x but now it seems that symlinks are
>disabled by default.
>
>The above entry found in the release notes stating that the
"allowLinking"
>flag may be used to disable the check is all fine and well if I can
only
>work out where to set this flag. No further mention can be found in
the
>documentation or anywhere on this list (If I didn't miss it).
>
>Is anyone else experiencing the same problem and could you please reply
>with
>a solution ?
>
>Thank you in advance.
>Nick Lombard.
>
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