can you not put the images in an image dir, and always source them to that directory? i.e. <img src="../../images/**"> ?
-----Original Message----- From: Romain Quilici [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 1:05 AM To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: getRealPath and war file Hello Dies, the working directory would be fine, but my images need to be accessible via a url(which is not the case if they are located inside the temp dir) In fact when an image is generated, I push the url inside the client browser, the new url automatically replaces the previous one in a statement like <img src=.....>. So I need a url to be able to access my images Regards Romain Dies Koper wrote: > Hello Romain, > > Is there no way you can use the temporary working directory > (javax.servlet.context.tempdir)? > I don't know what "pushing inside a client browser" means, but as you > mentioned the files are temporary, this sounds like the place to put > them.. > Also, you won't need to worry about maintaining some extra directory > after deployment, and this is a portable solution. > > Regards, > Dies > > Romain Quilici wrote: >> Mikolaj Rydzewski wrote: >>> Romain Quilici wrote: >>>> My pb is more to write in a given directory(must be accessible with >>>> a url), than to read. >>>> And I would prefer this directory to be located in my webapp. >>> Use directory outside webapp and then map it with alias, or some >>> kind of dispatcher servlet/filter. >>> >>> It'll help you to redeploy webapp and not to loose uploaded/saved >>> files. >>> >> Actually, >> in my application, files are temporary. So even if they are deleted >> in doesn't matter. >> What I mean is images are pushed inside a client browser when they >> are generated, but then are no longer used. >> I prefer to create the directory within my application, to avoid >> permissions issues >> As I understood, context.getRealPath("/"); will return the context of >> my application, even if my app is deployed within a war(as soon as >> UnpackWars is set to true in Tomcat). >> So I can deal with this command. I will provide anyway a mechanism to >> check if context.getRealPath("/"); is null, in such case the >> application should take the values from init parameters >> Regards >> Romain > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To start a new topic, e-mail: users@tomcat.apache.org To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
