Mapping a URL to a local store

[yj4jboss]

Hi all,
I am using jboss 4.0.5 and need to provide a repository where all my files are uploaded. For example "C:/myrepo/".

From my web application, i need to display images contained in this repo.

How can i map a url from within my web app context so that this link is correctly mapped onto my path on my local repository.


For example:

<img src="http://192.168.2.111:8080/mywebapp/repo/jboss.gif">

should correctly display the picture found at C:/myrepo on the server 192.168.2.111.


Please help


Regards,
Jankee Yogesh
M-ITC LTD

[peterj]

Two possibilities.

1) If you want to serve only static content (no servlets or JSPs, only images, documents, files), you can set up an external directory. See http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories

2) If you need the ability to run dynamic contents (JSPs, EJBs, ect), then you can

[yj4jboss]

Hi,
Thnx for the help ... It worked ... now i need to know how i give access to this repository only to users who are logged on my web application. I am using JBoss Seam.


Regards,
Jankee Yogesh

[raist_majere]

I haven't used Seam, but if you use the method described in
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ExternalDirectories ,
then, as said by Tomcat here
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html ,
this directory is like any other context you can deploy within the "predefined" in JBoss, so you can put WEB-INF/web.xml files there for authentication and so. If you need to use the same users for both web-apps (the one you developed and repo) you will need to either use single-sign-on http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=SingleSignOn or share session data between the two web-apps
http://wiki.jboss.org/wiki/Wiki.jsp?page=ShareSessionDataAcrossWars
Sorry for the line breaks, but in the preview everything was considered an URL if I didn't put these line breaks...

[yj4jboss]

Thnx for the suggestions .. I will try them and post some feedbacks.


Regards,
Jankee Yogesh