Symbolic link in tomcat

Symbolic link in tomcat

am 26.11.2004 18:08:09 von G

Does anybody know why symlinks doesn't work in tomcat ?

-->

cd webapps/myWebApp
ln -s /xxx

"http:// .../myWebApp/xxx/file1.html" causes an error

Accessrights of the link, file and dir are 777.

Thank for help.

Re: Symbolic link in tomcat

am 26.11.2004 18:13:02 von Davide Bianchi

On 2004-11-26, G wrote:
> Does anybody know why symlinks doesn't work in tomcat ?
> cd webapps/myWebApp
> ln -s /xxx

and this 'link' where is supposed to point?
Davide

--
"Microsoft technology" -- isn't that an oxymoron?
-- Gareth Barnard

Re: Symbolic link in tomcat

am 28.11.2004 14:55:04 von G

It is supposed to point to external resources files.

The problem is that I dont want to redeploy a sub directory of my webapp
each time. Thoses files are static files which have to be served as others
....

"Davide Bianchi" wrote in message
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> On 2004-11-26, G wrote:
>> Does anybody know why symlinks doesn't work in tomcat ?
>> cd webapps/myWebApp
>> ln -s /xxx
>
> and this 'link' where is supposed to point?
> Davide
>
> --
> "Microsoft technology" -- isn't that an oxymoron?
> -- Gareth Barnard