Christopher, I am currently using Maven to build my project and compile it into a WAR file. Does Maven have some plugin that can help me achieve what I am trying to do?
On Fri, Feb 26, 2016 at 10:34 AM, Christopher Schultz < ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote: > To whom it may concern, > > On 2/25/16 4:08 PM, gmc filter wrote: > > Hi all, > > I'm having some trouble with tomcat and symbolic links. I am working with > > OSX and I use a local instance of Tomcat to do some testing before > > deploying my site elsewhere. > > > > What I want to do: I'd like to create a small script which will stop > > tomcat, clear out old deployment folders, rebuild my project, copy the > > resulting WAR file to the webapps folder, restart tomcat, wait for > > deployment to finish, and finally replace a JSP file with a symbolic link > > to the corresponding file that is in my workspace. > > > > Why I want to do this: I'd like to be able to quickly rebuild and > redeploy > > my WAR and also edit my JSP files and see those changes by simply > > refreshing the already-open page. > > > > My problem: I have all of the above steps working so far. However, as > soon > > as I swap out the real index.JSP with a link to the one in my workspace, > I > > can no longer load the page, I get a 404 error instead. > > > > What I have tried: I have found questions like mine asked many times and > > usually the solution is to hunt down a "context.xml" file and add a tag > > into that file, 'allowLinking="true"'. I have tried to add this tag into > > "<tomcat home>/libexec/conf/context.xml", "<tomcat > > home>/libexec/conf/Catalina/localhost/context.xml" (created this one) and > > also "<tomcat home>/libexec/webapps/appname/META-INF/context.xml". After > > multiple restarts, none of those seem to change any functionality that I > > can see. > > > > By trial and error, I have eventually found that if I follow these > steps, I > > can get the link to work for a little while... > > Deploy the WAR > > Load the page (It works) > > Move index_bs.jsp to index_bs.jsp.bak (in the webapp directory) > > Load the page (404, as expected) > > Create a symbolic link from index_bs.jsp to index_bs.jsp.bak > > Load the page (It works!) > > Edit index_bs.jsp.bak, save > > Load the page (404 again) > > > > This seems very strange to me. Obviously I've reached a point where > > symbolic linking works somewhat, but as soon as I edit the original file > > (my main goal here) the link stops working as expected. Does anyone know > > what I'm doing wrong here? I must be missing something... > > > > > > Some information about my setup: > > OSX 10.10.5 > > Tomcat 8.0.28 installed with my username running brew brew to > > "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/" > > > "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/libexec/webapps/hue-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT.war" > > deployed successfully to > > "/usr/local/Cellar/tomcat/8.0.28/libexec/webapps/hue-web-1.0-SNAPSHOT/" > > Target file is > > "/Users/uid/mygithub/hue-stuff/hue-web/src/main/webapp/index_bs.jsp" > > If you need an IDE-independent build process (which I highly recommend), > consider something like Apache ant (similar to UNIX "make" but way > better for the Java world) or even Maven, if you don't mind the overhead. > > Using symlinks with Tomcat is sometimes problematic, though I can't > explain why it's actually failing for your specific case... I would have > expected that to work. > > -chris > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
