-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Peter,
On 12/15/2009 11:05 AM, Peter Crowther wrote: > 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. +1 :) > 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... Uh, file-serving code is pretty simple: set the Content-Type and Content-Length headers, open the file, deliver the bytes. It's so popular that it's already been written and even ships with Tomcat: it's called the DefaultServlet :) Seriously, though, Ingo was very close to a working solution: > I stumbled over a hint about adding a > > <Context docBase="/opt/documents" path="/documents"/> > > directive to the web.xml file Ohh! So close! That should be added to conf/server.xml (but not really, since that's no longer recommended). Let's do it the right way: Put this into conf/Catalina/localhost/document-repository.xml: <Context docBase="/opt/document-repository" path="/documents" /> I think you might have to restart Tomcat for it to pick up that config file, but it will create a new webapp context that serves files directly from that location. Your URLs will no longer look like this: http://localhost:8080/myApp/PDFViewer?file=document-repository/Folder%202/TestDok4.pdf&page=1 Instead, they can look just like this: /documents/Folder%202/TestDok4.pdf&page=1 You can even get rid of your PDFViewer servlet, because it's probably just serving bytes and not doing anything particularly exciting. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAksn2SsACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PDlQACglU4lGn9398YVUBpjMGtbJP2X beoAn1zI4YyBJe9sr2MYZOSdlyCqXi3o =RPfr -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
