Symbolic links are disabled by default in recent versions of Tomcat as a security measure.
There's a work-around, but I am not sure that it is completely bug-free. Check the release notes. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Mauro Daniel Ardolino [mailto:mauro@;altersoft.com.ar] > Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2002 2:37 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: allowLinking is not working (for me). > > > Tomcat is not deploying my application at startup because I > have symlinks > to the .jar files. > > Here's a copy of my context node in server.xml: > > <Context path="/MaeQueryPrototype3" > docBase="/home/mauro/workspace/MaeQueryPrototype3/web" > workDir="/home/mauro/workspace/MaeQueryPrototype3/work" > > > <Resources > className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext" > allowLinking="true" > docBase="/home/mauro/workspace/MaeQueryPrototype3/web" /> > </Context> > > What's wrong? The symbolic links are not working. My .jar file links > are at: > > /home/mauro/workspace/MaeQueryPrototype3/web/WEB-INF/lib/. > > If I make a hard link, it works fine. > > Thanks in advance. > > -- Mauro > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-unsubscribe@;jakarta.apache.org> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:tomcat-user-help@;jakarta.apache.org>
