what pidster said was correct about deploying webapps if you absolutely need to retain the picture images then you can set the permissions for only user root have access to image.img1
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Étant donné que les email peuvent facilement être sujets à la manipulation, nous ne pouvons accepter aucune responsabilité pour le contenu fourni. > From: ningappa.kon...@comviva.com > To: users@tomcat.apache.org; p...@pidster.com > Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0530 > Subject: RE: Question on allowLinking > > Hi Pid, > > Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delayed ack. > > Basically we are creating a softlink to a directory (containing some sound > files quite large in size) inside the webapps/project/jsp which we don't want > to put directly under the application's project directory. > > Is there any other settings I need to follow to instruct the tomcat not to > delete the softlink contents ? > > > Thanks & Regards, > Ningappa Koneri > mLifestyle | www.comviva.com > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Pid [mailto:p...@pidster.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM > To: users@tomcat.apache.org > Subject: Re: Question on allowLinking > > On 20/08/2009 07:52, Nachiketh G Rao wrote: > > Hi, > > I had a query regarding Tomcat 6.X. 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