External directory

[bronzeiii]

Hi all,

Here is a question hoping someone may please help. So i have a external WAR folder, named web.war, which I deploy to Jboss 4.2.3, and everything is working.

So, within the WAR directory, i have some HTML files. i.e. form.html. so after server starts up, in order to access those html files, i.e. form.html.. i need to have a URL of http://localhost:8080/web/form.html

Is there a way to put those html pages outside of the WAR directory.. maybe in another directory call html, so i can access them through
http://localhost:8080/html/form.html ??

If it's not possible to do this in any of jboss/tomcat config xml files, may someone point out how tomcat handles the URL request? Maybe I can extend that class, and override the path that tomcat uses to retrieve the pages based on the request.

Please help.
Thanks

[peterj]

Yes you can do this, what you need is an extenral directory. Here's how: http://www.jboss.org/community/docs/DOC-9727

And here is a recent discussion on the same topic: http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=139630

[bronzeiii]

Hey PeterJ

Thanks.. actually i figured it out after i posted last night. I just created a jboss-web.xml and put it in the WEB-INF folder of my project. The content of it is..

<jboss-web>
<context-root>/web</context-root>
</jboss-web>

now i can get the pages from the web directory without a problem.
do you think this is the right approach?

[peterj]

I am confused. Your original post says that you can already access your content from http://localhost:8080/web and want to access it from http://localhost:8080/html instead, yet the contents of the jboss-web.xml file indicate that the context should be /web, which means you are still accessing things via http://localhost:8080/web. Or did you mistype the value of context-root?

Anyway, using a jboss-web.xml file and setting context-root is the correct way to use a context other that the default (the default context is always the name of the war file, without the extension).

[bronzeiii]

hey Peter

Yes, it was a mistype... it should be /html

thanks!

[margotmedia]

You can add a path in server.xml file

;Context docBase='C:\\local\\app\\htmlfiles' path='/html' &gt;&lt;/Context&gt;