The symbolic link solution should be fine as long as you configure
Tomcat to follow symbolic links (see Steve O's response in this thread).
Having a "shared webapp" as suggested by Johnny could lead to problems
with cross site scripting restrictions for the Javascript code if any
cookies were involved.
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Stephen Souness
Johnny Kewl wrote:
----- Original Message ----- From: "John Buchholz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <users@tomcat.apache.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:21 AM
Subject: Shared Javascript, CSS, and Image Files
Hi,
I am looking for the recommended solution for when multiple webapps
need to use the same sets or javascript, css, and image files. I have
created a symbolic link in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/myapp called
"shared" pointing to /home/myhome/shared_files. When I refer to
/shared/test.js in my jsp, it does not recognize it. Is there
something I need to do to tell Tomcat to follow symbolic links or even
better is there a recommended location under $CATALINA_HOME for me to
add my collection of shared files that will be seen by all webapps?
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John why are you doing that... maybe I'm missing something, but its not
assembled "as it goes out", the browser comes back for it.
An easier way is to make a shared webapp, put all the stuff in there and
then just address that web app.
Or think of say all the images CSS, js files sitting on an Apache
server... you would just address them there.
JSP goes from any web app to browser... browser "comes back" and gets
those files from (Apache/or a "single web app).
You just not going to use a relative url... will either hard code or
bring in the "image context" from a parameter in web.xml etc.
Have fun...
I am using Tomcat 5.5.23.
Thanks so much for your help.
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