Serving static content stored in any directory

[thelemmings]

Hi,
Is it possible to serve static content using Tomcat, without having it stored in the application directory? For example, my whole application is located on context root '/' but I'd like a directory '/images' which is actually stored somewhere else on my filesystem, but not in the web application folder nor war (so that I can cleanly ftp new images in, for example)

I know that it is possible in Jetty, but how about in Tomcat?

Thanks

[jbeyer]

thelemmings,

Did you ever solve this problem? I'm having the same problem.

Thanks,
Jon

[rajkaushik]

Hi
Did any one solved the problem of serving static content using jboss-tomcat?

In Tomcat standalone, I edited the server.xml file and add

in the end of host tag. Everything works perfect.

But this solution is not working with Jboss+Tomcat?

Any ideas out there?

Raj

[rajkaushik]

I figured it out. There is a little trick. You will have to copy web.xml to /conf directory:

Step 1 : Copy a default web.xml from <JBOSS_HOME>/server/<config-name>/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar and place it in the <JBOSS_HOME>/server/<config-name>/conf directory

Step 2 : Edit <JBOSS_HOME>/server/<config-name>/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/server.xml and add a Context element under Host.(Step similar to standalone TC)

<Host name="localhost" ...>
<!-- ADD static benchmark DIRECTORY -->


...


Raj

[anil.saldhana]

This hack is already documented at the following wiki page:

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories

Please try to post your questions in the user forum. Also make it a habit to visit the Jboss wiki pages. We post a lot of information there.

[plamarque]

I followed the instructions for jboss-3.2.3/tomcat-4.1.x as described at :

http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories

I am using jboss-3.2.0+tomcat-4.1.24 but it doesn't seem to work. Are there some specific steps for it to work on jboss 3.2.0?

thks.

[jeyalakshminethaji]

Instructions in http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories did not work for me too.

Have you solved this problem?

[jaap]

Hi,

Just strugged with the same issue. I found that copying the web.xml to the conf directory is not necessary.

What worked for me (JBoss 4) is to edit server.xml. Set the Context as part of the Host configuration. But, you should put this Context _before_ the DefaultContext and after the Alias settings. If you put it after DefaultContext it will not work.

Jaap

[ramone1234]

I am running JBoss 3.2.8 + Tomcat 5.0. I followed all the steps on http://www.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories but it did work out.
Has anybody got this issue working on this JBoss version?
I would appreciate any help.
Thanks in advance,

Fernando