Symbolic Linking in AS7

[rpatrick]

We are currently migrating from JBoss 4.2.3 to JBoss 7.0.1.  For one web app we use symbolic links to directories within our expanded war file deployment.  This was enabled in release 4 by setting allowLinking="true" in the WEB-INF/context.xml file.  This also allowed us to enable the use of symbolic links specifically for this one web application.

Can anyone tell me how this is accomplished in AS7? 

[oourfali]

Hey,

Did you resolve this issue?

I have the same problem in my environment.

Thank you,

Oved

[rpatrick]

No, I have not had any response on this issue.

[jwulf]

According to https://issues.jboss.org/browse/AS7-3357:

"This is not going to be supported, please try to deploy standard webapps instead."

[arkhalil]

I accomplished this by mounting file system directory to the directory in my web application running the following command:

sudo mount -o bind /home/uploadedfiles $JBOSS_HOME/standalone/deployments/myapp.war/uploadedfiles

Have a look at https://community.jboss.org/thread/203669?tstart=0

Thanks.