Make Tomcat not clean directory on new deployment

[Sébastien Piller <pi...@hmcrecord.ch>]

Hello people,

First, I would like to thank you all for your work on this great 
project. Tomcat is, was, and will be my favourite webapp server from a 
long time ;)

I never need to do a lot with its internal configuration, but now I'm 
asking myself if the following stuff could be done:

I have an "upload" directory in my app. Users send us some files 
(pictures and swf) and I put them in this directory.

But when I make some update of my webapp, I deploy a .war file. But 
*this one doesn't have all the images* that were previously on the server!

Is it possible to tell Tomcat not to clean the webapp directory when a 
war file is deployed?

Thank you vm ;)

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Re: Make Tomcat not clean directory on new deployment

[Sébastien Piller <pi...@hmcrecord.ch>]

Ok thank you, that's what I was afraid on...

My only problem is that I use a special web framework, I'll try to see 
how I can load resource from out of the app in that framework.

Thank you again for your confirmation

David Smith a écrit :
> If you want to retain modifications like this, your only option is to 
> deploy the exploded webapp.  I would encourage you to store the 
> uploaded files in another folder outside your webapp which would make 
> updating your webapp cleaner, easier to manage.
>
> --David
>

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Re: Make Tomcat not clean directory on new deployment

[David Smith <dn...@cornell.edu>]

If you want to retain modifications like this, your only option is to 
deploy the exploded webapp.  I would encourage you to store the uploaded 
files in another folder outside your webapp which would make updating 
your webapp cleaner, easier to manage.

--David

Sébastien Piller wrote:
> Is it at least possible? Or is the only way to fix my issue to upload 
> only exploded files (so Tomcat will not redeploy the app)?
>
> Anybody has an idea?
>
>
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Re: Make Tomcat not clean directory on new deployment

[Sébastien Piller <pi...@hmcrecord.ch>]

Is it at least possible? Or is the only way to fix my issue to upload 
only exploded files (so Tomcat will not redeploy the app)?

Anybody has an idea?


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