Thanks to all for their help. After some more investigation, I realized I really didn't want Tomcatto follow the sym links. I solved my problem by defining some Contexts in server.xml so that, for eample, /images looked for a specific folder (not under Tomcat's control)
-- Jonathan Rosenberg Founder & Executive Director Tabby's Place, a Cat Sanctuary http://www.tabbysplace.org/ On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 3:09 PM, Caldarale, Charles R <chuck.caldar...@unisys.com> wrote: >> From: shmol...@gmail.com [mailto:shmol...@gmail.com] On Behalf Of Jonathan >> Rosenberg >> Subject: Re: Shared context.xml on WIndows XP > >> 1) I (think I) understand about the case-insensitivity issue. But I >> thought that was only a security concern & this machine does not face >> the public net. > > It can also mask sloppy programming that will fail on real deployments. > >> 2) Does this mean I can;t do what I want this way on Windows? > > It will be ugly and somewhat painful. > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolic_link#Microsoft_Windows > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you received > this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail and its > attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
