2009/12/15 Ingo Gambin <igam...@brilliant.de>
> Hi,
>
> I am new to Tomcat and JEE, but a new job means to learn new things.
>
> So right to my problem, wich I am sure is not too unusual, but I
> couldn't really find a solution (via google) so far.
>
> my directory structure looks as follows
>
> /opt/document-repository <- mounted nfs-disk of an archiving system
>
> /opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp.war <- my project deployment file
>
> my webapp for now is just a bunch of servlets which, using
> java.io.File..., have no trouble to read the archiving systems directory
> structure listing to list all available archived pdf-files. With
> servlets and some CSS I managed to build a little directory tree in the
> browser output and linked the pdf-files to get opened (via adobe reader
> plugin) in an iframe
>
> this basically works if the pdf-files I want to open are located in the
> deployment directory.
>
> but what I want to do is to access the pdf-files of the archiving disk.
> it seems tho while the servlet java code {java.io...} CAN, tomcat CANNOT
> access the pdf-files, which are stored there. And my projects deployment
> directory and the archiving systems mount have to be separated, so I can
> not mount the nfs into the deployment directory nor can I put my
> application around the nfs-mount-directory
>
> I stumbled over a hint about adding a
>
> <Context docBase="/opt/documents" path="/documents"/>
>
>
> directive to the web.xml file, but I haven't had any luck with my
> experiments so far, but then I realized that this would mean that I also
> have to move my project directory which I can't.
>
> So if there is any possibility to get this done (i am using linux incase
> you haven't guessed already) I would be very glad if anyone could drop a
> few lines to help me out.
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
>
> Ingo Gambin
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> <Context docBase="/opt/documents" path="/documents"/>
>
You must create documents.xml in conf/Catalina/localhost/ and put there this
directive, not in web.xml
