I think I found the solution. Putting it here for comopleteness. In the $CATALINA_BASE/conf/context.xml file add the following to the Context tag aka
It looked like this before <Context sessionCookieName="JSESSIONID_PAAS" swallowOutput="true" useHttpOnly="true" > and now it looks like <Context allowLinking="true" sessionCookieName="JSESSIONID_PAAS" swallowOutput="true" useHttpOnly="true" > See that allowLinking attribute. Once I set it up, I am good to go. -Narahari On Thu, Feb 1, 2018 at 4:35 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savith...@gmail.com> wrote: > Friends: > > I am sure the experts here have stumbled on this. So please help. > > I have an app where I have > > myapp > |_WEB-INF/lib/gson-2.3.1.jar > > When I start tomcat it works fine. > > NOw I do this > > cd webapps/myapp/WEB-INF/lib > > ln -s ../../../thejars/gson-2.3.1.jar gson-2.3.1.jar > > I then restart tomcat and the error comes up like this > > java.io.IOException: Failed to access resource /WEB-INF/lib/gson-2.3.1.jar > > so if I do a SOFT link in linux the app wont start. > > On the other hand if I do a HARD link the app comes up fine. > > Any ideas ? > >
