Send reply to: Tomcat Users List <users@tomcat.apache.org> Date sent: Sun, 14 Dec 2008 12:56:17 +0100 From: Robert Drescher <robert.dresc...@gmail.com> To: users@tomcat.apache.org Subject: File system resource for static content
> Hello users, > I'm trying to find the best practice way for implementing the > following: I want a servlet to perform file uploads and to store the > files in the local filesystem. This part is not that hard to do as i'm > currently writing into the javax.servlet.context.tempdir. > > The problem is that i need to store the files in a directory, that > will be accessible from the web. My tutor at university gave me the > hint that this is best done with a resource which points to a local > directory and that's mapped to the webapp. > > So I imagine that http://localhost:8080/WebTest/Upload is my servlet > mapping and that http://localhost:8080/WebTest/files/ points to this > resource. > I do something very similar using apache commons upload project. I have a separate files directory in my webapp directory and I use the following code to initialize a path to save my uploaded files: ServletContext sc = getServletContext(); String path = sc.getRealPath("/files"); I can then access a file in the that files directory via http://server:8080/appname/files/filename -Steve O. > But all my research in the documentation did not bring any success. I > know that i can specify resources in the context.xml, but not how I > specify the path on the local system or how to do the mapping... If > anyone already did this and can provide me with configuration > examples, I'd very much appreciate it. > > I am using Tomcat 5.5 on Linux (not the pre-packaged), the application > is deployed as war, my context.xml is located in META-INF > ------------------------------------------------------------ <?xml > version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context privileged="true" > antiResourceLocking="false" > antiJARLocking="false" > path="WebTest" > /> > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > My web.xml is the following: > ------------------------------------------------------------- > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <web-app version="2.4" > xmlns="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee"; > xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; > xsi:schemaLocation="http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee > http://java.sun.com/xml/ns/j2ee/web-app_2_4.xsd";> > <description>Test Internetapplikationen</description> > > <servlet> > <description>Controller Servlet</description> > <display-name>Controller Servlet</display-name> > <servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name> > <servlet-class>org.agility.webtest.control.Controller</servlet-cla > ss> > </servlet> > > <servlet-mapping> > <servlet-name>Controller</servlet-name> > <url-pattern>/Controller</url-pattern> > </servlet-mapping> > <welcome-file-list> > <welcome-file>Login.jsp</welcome-file> > </welcome-file-list> > </web-app> > ------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Thank you very much for your help > Robert > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
