virtual directories in JBoss - possible?

[ntone606]

Hi all,

In orion it's possible to specify a virtual directory mapping, which is used to include files that don't phsyically reside below the web layer's document root. Is this possible in JBoss?

For example i've got an /uploads directory which is created by my application (which will be created in <jboss-dist>/bin/uploads) in which image files are placed. I'd like to map this in a fashion similar to the following (exert from Orion's orion-web.xml):

<virtual-directory virtual-path="/uploadedimages/" real-path="../../../uploads" />

This will allow a request to http://myServer/contextPath/uploadedimages/somefile.jpg to return the file out of the uploads directory.

Any ideas?

Thanks in advance.

[ntone606]

This doesn't seem possible - it is planned for implementation?

[sanjiv_kumar34]

Hi,

R u able to solve the problem of virtual directory then pls let me know

Rgds

Sanjiv

[stefano_fornari]

I too would like to have this feature

[ereze]

If someone got any idea how to accomplish virtual directory settings, please let me know too... I am searching and searching but still no luck. The only solutions currently available are:

1) use a servlet to serve files
2) use Apache at the front with an alias to the virtual directory.

Why can't JBoss add this functionality too? Anyway i someone does come across an idea do tell.

Thanks in advance,
Erez

[stefano_fornari]

What I have done is simply creating a virtualdir.war in the deploy directory and put my files in there. Then you can access it with /virtualdir context. It is not really like a virtual directory, but it is very close. Instead of virtualdir you can use whatever path you like and with unix symlink you can do nice things....

Stefano

[benw]

If you are using the JBoss/Jetty configuration, you can do this by changing the Jetty configuration. See

http://www.coredevelopers.net/technology/jetty/jetty-jboss-faq.jsp#I_want_to_serve_content_from_outside_a

for details.

Ben

[dmitry_ame]

This is all you have to do:

create following jboss-web.xml


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<jboss-web>
<virtual-host>hostname.com</virtual-host>
<context-root>/</context-root>
</jboss-web>




It's essential that context-root is specified if you already have a default context mapped to another web application in current container.

[haodan]

In jboss 3.2.3 you can have the virtual directory. But I think 3.2.3 have many bugs, so if you want use in 3.x or 4.x, you can just copy the code in 3.2.3 into you 3.x compile and replace the tomcat41-service.jar, then you can set your virtual path.

Code in org.jboss.web.catalina.ConfigHandler.

Good luck

[starksm64]

Works fine for me. See the description in the following FAQ entry:
http://www.jboss.org/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&p=3824409#3824409

[haodan]

I mean 3.0.x or 4.0.x cannot have the virtual directory.right?