> -----Original Message----- > From: Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net> > Sent: Wednesday, June 5, 2019 4:37 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Making PreResources configuration recurse directories > > Nationwide Information Security Warning: This is an external email. Do not > click > on links or open attachments unless you trust the sender. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > Theodore, > > On 6/5/19 15:16, Milbaugh, Theodore K (Ted) wrote: > > I am using Tomcat version 9.0.12 > > > > I have a PreResources tag in my context.xml like this: > > > > <Resources > > className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.StandardRoot"> > > <PreResources > > className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet" > > base="C:\\good_files\\goodies_in_here" internalPath="/" > > webAppMount="/" /> </Resources> > > > > This works great, in that if I access a JSP like this: > > > > http://localhost:8080/candy/chocolate.jsp > > > > I am able to access the JSP with no issues. However, there are > > subdirectories in C:\good_files\goodies_in_here. If I try to access a > > JSP in a subdirectory: > > > > http://localhost:8080/candy/crunchy/peanut_brittle.jsp > > > > I get a 404, even though the file > > C:\good_files\goodies_in_here\crunchy\ peanut_brittle.jsp exists. > > Do I have to create a PreResources tag for each subdirectory in my > > tree? > > What you are doing is expected to work. It doesn't map a single directory and > its (non-directory) contents into a single directory. It grafts entire trees > into > the URL space. > > It may be a copy/paste error, but I see a space between your "crunchy/" and > "peanut_brittle.jsp" strings. It should not matter, but if you replace "\\" > in your > configuration with "/", does that improve things? > > I would caution you about the use of <PreResources>. If there is for example a > WEB-INF/web.xml file in there or WEB-INF/classes, then those will be loaded > before the web application's "normal" files are loaded, which may be > surprising. > > - -chris
Chris: I might have been seeing a permissions error. I copied all of the resource files to a local directory, and everything is working as expected now. Thanks for your advice, I changed my configuration to a PostResources tag, and used forward slashes for my directory specification. Ted Milbaugh ted.milba...@nationwide.com
