Hello John
Actually, this is possible: I have done it like this:
<Context path="/myWebAppContextName/images"
docBase="/usr/myPhotos/Thumbs"
crossContext="false"
debug="0"
reloadable="true" >
</Context>
which goes into tomcat/conf/Catalina/host/myThumbs.xml
Then, when the html generated by myWebAppcontextName/myServlet
contains something like
src="images/thumb123.jpg"
what tomcat sees is
http://www.yourDomain.com/myWebAppContextName/images/thumb123.jpg
but the myThumbs.xml trumps the definition of the context in the
above URL and will be simply seen by the tomcat DefaultServlet as a
reference to the actual location on disk.
(i.e., "myWebAppContextName/images" is replaced by
"/usr/myPhotos/Thumbs") and tomcat will serve it from there if
the /usr/myPhotos/Thumbs tree is readable by tomcat.
The problem, however, is that you had better turn off directories
listing in the conf/web.xml for DefaultServlet:
<init-param>
<param-name>listings</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
and/or put a blank index.html in all directories in the image
tree, or anyone can look at the image tree. Tomcat, however, is
real good about not letting anyone see above the /usr/myPhotos/Thumbs
level.
Maurice Yarrow
John Laughton wrote:
The problem with the servlet is sandboxing
If you try to refer (href) to a file outside the container, it will not
work
Chuck,
I want to have a jsp page with lots of jpeg's. In order to keep them in
the container, I would need to put them into the war file. This would
make the war file huge !
The other option is to put a softlink in the war file to point to
another area of disk outside the container (I am linux based)
I had problems getting this to work properly
I ended up creating a new context with
.../tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/imageData.xml
and put my jpegs there
Now I can put the following in my jsp file
<td>
<a href="/imageData/alex/busc/game07/DSC_1981.jpg">
<img alt="thumb image"
src="/imageData/alex/busc/game07/DSC_1981_thumb.jpg"/></a>
</td>
when the browser gets to the img statement, it actually pulls the
thumbnail from a different context
John
At 12:39 PM 10/27/2005 -0500, Caldarale, Charles R wrote:
> From: John Laughton [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: static server implementation?
>
> I ended up created a second context in tomcat that allows
> access to the static content (ie. large jpegs)
I'm confused. Why wasn't Tomcat's default servlet sufficient? It's
sole purpose is to deliver static content.
- Chuck
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