Map external folder into web app

[jarakamandan]

Hi,

Here's a newbie question for you!

I would like to map an afs folder into a web app running on JBoss AS 4.2.3.GA, so that it can serve up static content from there. We deploy the app using a WAR inside a EAR, so I can't simply put a soft link in the root folder (since that folder will be in a temp dir somewhere).

One option would be to write a JSP page that uses <c:import> or something to get the files, but that seems like bit of a hack.

Is there some setting that I can use!?

Many thanks,

Micke

[jaikiran]

See this http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ExternalDirectories

[jarakamandan]

Good stuff, thanks!

[mp_108]

I am using JBoss 4.2.3 and followed the steps for JBoss 4.2.X but am confused as to how to set value for docBase.

The example shows:

docBase="/home/pgib/images"

To what folder does "/home" correspond to?

What do I set docBase to if my resources folder is:  "C:/Users/ABCD/images" ?

[peterj]

The example is from Linux, where "/home" is the diretcotyr that contains user subdirectories. It is the Linux equivalent of C:/users" on Windows since Vista. So you would set:

docBase="C:/Users/ABCD/images"

[mp_108]

now that you mention it, seems obvious

modified server.xml as suggested in the wiki and now can see my images - for some reason, and I was guessing it was due to \ or / path separators, I was getting error when accessing images hence my query.

Nopoe, now I know why it was failing - I used lower case filename extension: .jpg instead of uppper .JPG !!!!

[peterj]

You have to remember that a "\" is an escape character in most Java processing, thus if you want to use "\" you would have to double up on it. Example: C:\\Users\\ABCD\\images

Personally, I avoid the backslash whenever possibly.