I placed under WEB-INF itself. I created a directory called config adn placed the abc.props and abc.log under it.
Whether i need to configure them in the web.xml? or should i remove it from there. Because wen i removed the init param, there is no change i am getting the same error......not able to find the abc.props or abc.log files .........FILENOTFOUNDEXCEPTION. Just want to know where should i specify them. On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Juha Laiho <juha.la...@iki.fi> wrote: > john S wrote: > > Actually, I am not sure where to place and configure the property > > files (*SERVLET ARGS*) in tomcat. > > If it's ok for you to have the files deployed along with your application, > then I'd like to propose the following: > Place the files within /WEB-INF/ directory in your web application. > You could also create a subdirectory within /WEB-INF/ to contain > just these files, such as /WEB-INF/config/ . > > Then read the files with getResourceAsStream method of ServletContext, > and process the stream to get the data you need. This way is specified > by the Servlet specification, so is portable across different containers. > > > Files places within /WEB-INF/ cannot be accessed by direct browser > requests, so they are safe from prying eyes. > > The other way would be to place the configuration files outside > your web application. For this you'll likely want to split the > "root" directory for the files from the file names (and possibly > directory hierarchy underneath the "root") so that the placement > underneath the "root" is dictated by the application, but the "root" > location is set from outside the application. For this there is no > standard way, but you could use a Java system property (specified > with "-Dprop_name=value" on the JVM command line), or Tomcat context > parameters, to set the root directory. The placement underneath the > root would still be as it is now. Then in your code you'd concatenate > the "root" location with the file path/name from web.xml and process > the files as such. > > -- > ..Juha > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
