Deploying an application outside \server\default\deploy

[funnyname]

Hi,
I have an application which has to be deployed outside \server\default\deploy directory. For e.g., I have my exploded war file at C:\Program Files\myapp\www\webapps\app1 directory. Is there any way I can accomplish this? I do not want to modify the URL attibute in "conf/jboss-service.xml" since there is a possibility that this file can be modified by a third-party.

Earlier, I used to run my app on Tomcat and I used an xml file inside /tomcat/conf/catalina/localhost/ directory to specify the context path. My app related files are in the C:\Program Files\myapp\www\webapps\app1 and I specify this path in an xml file in /tomcat/conf/catalina/localhost/ directory.

Is there any way I can get this done with JBoss?

[peterj]

This cannot be done for an application. You can, however, do it for static content, se http://www.jboss.com/index.html?module=bb&op=viewtopic&t=88171

[seanmceligot]

You just need to edit conf/jboss-service.xml. Here's the description and examples right from jboss-service.xm:

<!-- URLs are comma separated and resolve relative to the server home URL
unless the given path is absolute. If the URL ends in "/" it is
considered a collection and scanned, otherwise it is simply deployed;
this follows RFC2518 convention and allows discrimination between
collections and directories that are simply unpacked archives.

URLs may be local (file:) or remote (http:). Scanning is supported
for remote URLs but unpacked deployment units are not.

Example URLs:
deploy/
scans ${jboss.server.url}/deploy/, which is local or remote
depending on the URL used to boot the server
${jboss.server.home}/deploy/
scans ${jboss.server.home)/deploy, which is always local
file:/var/opt/myapp.ear
deploy myapp.ear from a local location
file:/var/opt/apps/
scans the specified directory
http://www.test.com/netboot/myapp.ear
deploys myapp.ear from a remote location
http://www.test.com/netboot/apps/
scans the specified WebDAV location
-->

deploy/

[funnyname]

I had already tried modifying the conf/jboss-service.xml. But it seems to always pick up the path relative to "server\default". For e.g., I made an entry -


deploy/,file:C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/


and it was searching for "C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/" inside the '\server\default' directory and it throws the following error -

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\jboss\4.0.2\se
rver\default\C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/

Is there any way I can specify a folder outside the JBOSS folder?

[funnyname]

I had already tried modifying the conf/jboss-service.xml. But it seems to always pick up the path relative to "server\default". For e.g., I made an entry -


deploy/,file:C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/


and it was searching for "C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/" inside the '\server\default' directory and it throws the following error -

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\jboss\4.0.2\se
rver\default\C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/

Is there any way I can specify a folder outside the JBOSS folder?

[funnyname]

I had already tried modifying the conf/jboss-service.xml. But it seems to always pick up the path relative to "server\default". For e.g., I made an entry -


deploy/,file:C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/


and it was searching for "C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/" inside the '\server\default' directory and it throws the following error -

java.io.FileNotFoundException: C:\Program Files\jboss\4.0.2\se
rver\default\C:/Program Files/myApp/www/webapps/app1/

Is there any way I can specify a folder outside the JBOSS folder?