On 3/10/2011 10:21 AM, John C wrote:
In case I did not explain myself well. I am trying to create a link to a file
in a webpage. The link works fine using Apache + Tomcat if the file and link
are both relative. This means that the html file containing the link to the
text file is located in the same directory as the file itself. However I would
like to link to absolute files anywhere on the system where the Apache + Tomcat
server is hosted. In this case I am running on local host and using the
absolute link to the file (file:///C:/Users/OEM/Desktop/testa.txt).
Unfortunately this doesn't work. Any idea what I am doing wrong?
From: jac_legend_...@hotmail.com
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Cannot create a link to a file - suspecting tomcat is the issue
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 04:07:47 +1300
I am trying to create a link to a file in my webpage. The anchors href for the link is
"file:///C:/Users/OEM/Desktop/testa.txt". When I run my webpage from file I can
click the link (file:///C:/Users/OEM/Documents/NetBeansProjects/WebApp/web/main.htm).
However when I run my webpage using Apache Server and Tomcat I cannot click the link
(http://localhost:8080/WebApp/main.htm). What I am trying to achieve is to be able to
create a link to a file located anywhere on the server. Since I am using localhost, I
would like to point to this file (file:///C:/Users/OEM/Desktop/testa.txt). How do I do
this? Does the file have to be relative to Apache Server?
Thanks
I'll bet that file doesn't exist on the user's machine, right? You need
to have a link that the users' browsers can resolve, so it will need to
be something in the web server's domain.
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