I'm no guru, but I believe the recommended configuration is to set the Context with the appopriate directory as its docBase. A Context's docBase does not have to be under a Host's appBase.
John
On Fri, 30 May 2003 08:40:31 -0500, Geralyn M Hollerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
John Turner wrote:
This only works if you allow symbolic links (not recommended). In recent
versions of Tomcat, you have to explicitly define symbolic links as being
"OK"...they are disabled by default.
I didn't realize that...so is there a better (recommended) way to refer to a directory ouside of the Tomcat context?
Thanks!
Lynn Hollerman.
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On Thu, 29 May 2003 10:32:02 -0500, Geralyn M Hollerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> stephanj wrote:
>> Is it not possible to create directories to organize your users with
>> Tomcat?
>
> I *think* I understand what you want to do...we needed something
> similar, so we created a directory outside of the Tomcat context and
> then, in the /Tomcat/webapps directory, put a symbolic link to that
> directory outside of Tomcat (call it /New). Now we can access /New by
> pointing to http://hostname:8080/New - this is along with a similar
> <Context> statement in server.xml. I hope this is what you had in mind!
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