I'm looking for a replacement too...

I used to have in JBoss AS 4's server.xml some context like that :

<Context path="/static"

docBase="C:\static"

reloadable="false"

debug="0"

trusted="false"/>

I've seen that JBoss web 7 have a static resources configuration: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/config/static.html

But I haven't managed to find where to configure aliases....

The dev list is here https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/jboss-as7-dev

I've found something in JBoss Web  7 documentation:

It seems you can define context resources, see an example here:

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/manager-howto.html

The documentation referer to a conf directory, that contains the default servlet configuration:

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/default-servlet.html

The documentation refers to CATALINA_HOME:

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/introduction.html

"Toughout the docs, you may notice references to $CATALINA_HOME. In JBossWeb 7.0.x that is where the webapp are  deployed The default location in the Stanalone Server is configured by jboss.server.temp.dir normally jboss.home.dir/standalone/tmp."

So, I'm not really sure where I should put this configuration in JBoss AS 7. Does anyone here has already configured the default servlet in AS 7 ? Thanks.

Hello,

I've been investigating a bit the JBoss Web 7 documentation to understand how I could configure the web.xml, context.xml and server.xml.

The documentation says: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/index.html

This is the top-level entry point of the documentation bundle for the JBoss Web Servlet/JSP container, which is based on the Apache Tomcat 6.0 project developed by the Apache Software Foundation.

And the JBoss Web 7 documention, as Tomcat 6's documentation, refers to conf/server.xml :

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/jndi-resources-howto.html

For JBoss Web, these entries in per-web-application InitialContext are configured in the <Context> elements that can be specified in either $CATALINA_HOME/conf/server.xml.

In my server, I notice the property catalina.home refers indeed to the standalone/tmp directory as stated in the documentation: http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/introduction.html

Throughout the docs, you may notice references to $CATALINA_HOME. In JBossWeb 7.0.x that is where the webapp are  deployed The default location in the Stanalone Server is configured by jboss.server.temp.dir normally jboss.home.dir/standalone/tmp.

However, I notice that, unlike Tomcat 6, in Jboss Web 7, in the class org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig, the method init which created digesters and parsed the configuration with the method contextConfig() does no longer does that in JBoss Web 7.0.1. I guess JBoss AS expects to find the configuration elsewhere (standalone.xml probably), but where ? I must ask, as the documentation does not reflect the way JBoss Web seems to work...

Thank you

The jbossweb docs is being cleaned, reference to context.xml, server.xml etc are wrong.

The minimal you need is under http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/config

Does this mean that it won't be possible to configure the Default Servlet anymore ?

http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/config/static.html

for the mapping see  http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/config/subsystem.html

I've ended up making my own servlet for this based on DefaultServlet:

/**

* Servlet to serve files from a static directory

*/

public class FileServingServlet extends DefaultServlet

{

    public void init() throws ServletException {

        super.init();

        final Hashtable<String, Object> env = new Hashtable<String, Object>();

        env.put(ProxyDirContext.HOST, resources.getHostName());

        env.put(ProxyDirContext.CONTEXT, resources.getContextName());

        final String docBaseProperty = getServletConfig().getInitParameter("docBaseProperty");

        if (docBaseProperty == null || docBaseProperty.trim().equals("")) {

                 throw new RuntimeException("docBaseProperty parameter must not be blank");

       }

       final String docBase = System.getProperty(docBaseProperty);

       if (docBase == null || docBase.trim().equals("")) {

                 throw new RuntimeException("docBase property " + docBaseProperty + " must be set");

       }

       final FileDirContext context = new FileDirContext(env);

       context.setDocBase(docBase);

       // Load the proxy dir context.

       resources = new ProxyDirContext(env, context);

       if (super.debug > 0) {

          log("FileServingServlet:  docBase=" + docBase);

      }

   }

}

Which I use like this in the web.xml

   <servlet>

        <servlet-name>fileServing</servlet-name>

        <servlet-class>xxxx.FileServingServlet</servlet-class>

        <init-param>

            <param-name>debug</param-name>

            <param-value>0</param-value>

        </init-param>

        <init-param>

            <param-name>listings</param-name>

            <param-value>false</param-value>

        </init-param>

        <init-param>

            <param-name>docBaseProperty</param-name>

            <!-- Name of the system property containg the base dir -->

            <param-value>my.basedir.directory</param-value>

        </init-param>

        <load-on-startup>1</load-on-startup>

    </servlet>

    <servlet-mapping>

        <servlet-name>fileServing</servlet-name>

        <url-pattern>/directory/*</url-pattern>

    </servlet-mapping>

It maps to /directory the content of the local directory specified in the System property my.basedir.directory. I use such a property because I did not want to hard code the local directory in the web.xml as it can be different in various deployement context.

Hello Jean-Frederic,

Jean-Frederic Clere schrieb:

 

The jbossweb docs is being cleaned, reference to context.xml, server.xml etc are wrong.

The minimal you need is under http://docs.jboss.org/jbossweb/7.0.x/config

In AS6 the "cache" attibute for the Authenticator Valves (e.g. org.apache.catalina.authenticator.BasicAuthenticator) could be configured inside context.xml.

Unfortunately i couldn't find a way how to configure the cache attribute within AS7 after dessupport of context.xml. Neither the jboss-as-web_1_1.xsd nor the current docs seem to cover this.

Could you please take a look into https://community.jboss.org/message/719779 and suggest a way how the principal cache can be disabled in AS7?

Thanks in advance

Robert