Accessing an external directory for a webapp

[jreader]

I have a fresh installation of jboss4.0.3SP1 running as a service.

There is an existing application that is currently running on Tomcat Standalone i'll call foo.war, deployed under localhost for testing

to access the page i type http://localhost:8080/foo and it runs the top page.

What I need is for http://localhost:8080/foo/pdf to point to a directory C:\webfiles\foo\pdf.

I have tried adding context.xml to the WEB-INF directory of the War



as well as adding it to server.xml file for tomcat, but the only thing that occurs is when i go to localhost:8080/foo, it just redirects to the C:\webfiles\foo\pdf path.

How can I make jboss simply take requests for a certain folder to go to another directory. Its just a simple redirect, but there is nothing in the documentation showing how this is done.

Thanks for any help in advance.
James

[jreader]

Update: I was able to get it "working" by doing the following two things.

Copied JBOSS_HOME>/server/default/deploy/jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/web.xml to <JBOSS_HOME>/server/<config-name>/conf/web.xml

And added a Context entry to jbossweb-tomcat50.sar/server.xml

I would like to be able to do this within the META-INF\context.xml from the war itself to provide as much mobility as possible for the servlet. Simply moving the context from server.xml to context.xml doesn't work. Instead it redirects all requests to that app to the external directory.

As of now, I am wondering if this is a bug in tomcat and not a configuration error. The Host and Context handling in both tomcat and jboss-tomcat are a huge mess.