It's the default behavior for security reasons. Check the release notes, check the archives. There is a flag that can be set in server.xml, but you will need to upgrade to versions higher than .12 for it to work correctly. We don't use symlinks, so I can't explain further. I believe the flag is called "allowLinking".
This comes up quite a bit...searching an archive of this list should explain things further. John > -----Original Message----- > From: Hanasaki JiJi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, November 17, 2002 12:15 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: ln -s synbolic links not followed on unix/linux > > > Tomcat 4.1.12 seems to be having problems with symbolic links under > linux. The below error is reported when trying to access the docs > subdirectory that was soft linked to another part of the filesystem. > > ls docs/* shows the directory contents fine. > > Is there a way to allow tomcat to traverse the softlinks? > Why is this > the default behavior? > > Thank you > > type Status report > > message /docs/ > > description The requested resource (/docs/) is not available. > -- > ================================================================= > = Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the = > = right things. - Peter Drucker = > =_______________________________________________________________= > = http://www.sun.com/service/sunps/jdc/javacenter.pdf = > = www.sun.com | www.javasoft.com | http://wwws.sun.com/sunone = > ================================================================= > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > For additional commands, e-mail: > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
