Are the symbolic links pointing to somewhere outside the appBase? I ran into the same problem and adding this to my context.xml fixed the issue:
<Resources className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot" allowLinking="true"/> See http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html -Peter On 7/15/14, 2:21 PM, "Michael Bauers" <michael.bau...@jdsu.com> wrote: >We had tomcat 7 installed and were using symbolic links. A developer had >apparently allowed this via allowLinking set to true in a context.xml file > >I am trying to migrate to tomcat 8.0.9 and this no longer works. In >fact, I get warnings in the log. > >15-Jul-2014 15:14:05.484 WARNING [localhost-startStop-1] >org.apache.catalina.startup.SetContextPropertiesRule.begin >[SetContextPropertiesRule]{Context} Setting property 'allowLinking' to >'true' did not find a matching property. > >Are symbolic links no longer supported, or is there an alternate way to >enable them? It's a big issue if they are not so all help is very much >appreciated. > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
