The affect of allowLinking is to allow the servlet to serve up paths that are associated with a symbolic link.
An example would be if I had a images folder in the root of my web app. The images folder is really a symbolic link pointing to another folder on my hard drive. With the allow Linking enabled I could still through a web browser see the images in the images folder. I hope I explained that correctly. Apache Httpd also has a property in it's configuration to do that. djencks wrote: > > > On Jan 8, 2008, at 9:33 AM, Adam Ruggles wrote: > >> >> I'm using Geronimo 2.2 with tomcat. I'm trying to get Geronimo to >> follow >> symbolic links. I have a folder outside the webapp that I use a >> symlink to >> allow the user to browse that folder. In tomcat I was able to edit >> the >> server.xml file with <DefaultContext allowLinking="true"/>. How can I >> accomplish this in Geronimo. > > I wouldn't call myself a tomcat expert, but I don't know of any way > to do this in geronimo. I expect it would be easy to add, so you > could add a Jira issue asking for it. I expect we'd need a new > tomcat specific element in geronimo-web.xml, although since I'm not > familiar with the exact meaning or effect of the property I could be > wrong. > > thanks > david jencks > >> >> Thanks, >> Adam >> -- >> View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Geronimo-Follow- >> Symbolic-Links-tp14694340s134p14694340.html >> Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at >> Nabble.com. >> > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Geronimo-Follow-Symbolic-Links-tp14694340s134p14697588.html Sent from the Apache Geronimo - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
