2009/12/15 André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> > But maybe you could just create a link, inside your deployment directory, > to the mount ? > > /opt/Tomcat/webapps/myApp/docs --> /opt/document-repository > > If you're going to do this, be Very Very Careful. Tomcat doesn't follow symbolic links by default, even on UNIX. This is for a very good reason: if you do this, Tomcat *will* follow the symlink and delete your PDFs when you undeploy your webapp.
You probably don't want this to happen. This is a common enough use case (it comes up about once a month on the list) that Someone may have coded a quick "serve the content from this directory" servlet, probably based on the root webapp. Chris? You're generally the coder with quick hacks already developed... - Peter
