Hi, thanks a lot!
Using the 'deprecated' way of putting the '<Context docBase...>' directive to server.xml worked whereas trying to put it into documents.xml in the localhost directory did not (using Tomcat 5.5). I am using an extra servlet for the viewer because I dont want to reload the whole page but still want to set my session variables to the values sent via the link (file=... page=...), which I can easily do in the viewer servlet. Thanks again for all the ideas and information, I think I did learn a few things by your responses... especially the 'symbolic link'-hint as I was about to try that first thing this morning, good I read mails first. Best regards and CU when I encounter my next problem:-) Ingo Am Dienstag, den 15.12.2009, 13:44 -0500 schrieb Christopher Schultz: > -----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 >
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