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Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Hi,
I am using Tomcat 7.0.11 and environment is win 7 home premium with
servlet/jsp/jstl with netbeans 7.01
I have form where in I upload the image to the folder C://xx using
apache commons file upload and then store the file name to the
DB.Everything is good till here.
Then when I want to display the same image, I query the database using
servlet and store the image name to attribute like
request.setAttribute("collegesimg", img);
now via front end jsp, I want to display the same image stored in attribute,
I do
<img src="C://UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%" height="500">
Now this works perfectly fine,but FF/Chrome fails saying cannot load
local resources with 404 status.
Now I can understand that this is FF/Chrome by default do allow to
access local file system on the client.Good till here.
But I am not able to figure out where do I store the images now so that
I can display it correctly and they remain in place when I redeploy the
app?Is their any place in Tomcat's dir structure where the folder is
still called root folder and when we undeploy or redeploy , images still
remains intact ?
My tomcat 7.0.11 structure looks something like below,
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 7.0.11>dir
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is 8255-4D52
Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11
06/12/2011 05:17 AM <DIR> .
06/12/2011 05:17 AM <DIR> ..
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> bin
08/16/2011 09:05 AM <DIR> conf
12/07/2011 07:25 AM <DIR> lib
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 57,851 LICENSE
05/29/2012 12:05 AM <DIR> logs
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 1,230 NOTICE
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 9,011 RELEASE-NOTES
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 6,860 RUNNING.txt
05/29/2012 03:44 AM <DIR> temp
06/12/2011 05:17 AM 2,221,126 uninstall.exe
03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> webapps
08/14/2011 08:15 AM <DIR> work
5 File(s) 2,296,078 bytes
9 Dir(s) 245,526,077,440 bytes free
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 7.0.11>cd webapps
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat 7.0.11\webapps>dir
Volume in drive C is OS
Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11\w
ebapps
03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> .
03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> ..
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> docs
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> examples
03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> files
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> host-manager
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> manager
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> ROOT
0 File(s) 0 bytes
8 Dir(s) 245,526,077,440 bytes free
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11\webapps>cd root
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11\webapps\ROOT>di
r
Volume in drive C is OS
Volume Serial Number is 8255-4D52
Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11\w
ebapps\ROOT
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> .
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> ..
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 5,866 asf-logo-wide.gif
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 17,811 asf-logo.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 713 bg-button.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 1,918 bg-middle.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 1,392 bg-nav-item.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 1,401 bg-nav.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 3,103 bg-upper.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 3,469 build.xml
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 21,630 favicon.ico
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 13,066 index.jsp
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 9,011 RELEASE-NOTES.txt
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 2,376 tomcat-power.gif
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 6,074 tomcat.css
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 2,066 tomcat.gif
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 5,103 tomcat.png
03/10/2011 03:44 PM 67,792 tomcat.svg
06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> WEB-INF
16 File(s) 162,791 bytes
3 Dir(s) 245,526,085,632 bytes free
C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache Tomcat
7.0.11\webapps\ROOT>
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
On 6/5/2012 7:41 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Kiran,
>
> On 6/5/12 1:31 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>> After playing around for a day,
>>
>> this is another solutions which worked for me,
>>
>> <Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
>> with Tomcat 7.0.11 in context.xml
> Good, except that you should really upgrade to the latest Tomcat 7.0
> version. Plenty of security fixed have been shipped since 7.0.11.
Yes , I will try to give a shot.But it will take sometime.But
application is deployed in latest tomcat version 7.0.27 and this is my
development server.
>> I think now I understand as how aliases work, /UploadedImages is
>> the aliaspath and c:/UploadedImages is the docbase to which it
>> refers.
>>
>> Is this understanding correct ?
> /UploadedImages is the URL where resources in C:\UploadedImages can be
> requested. The term "docbase" doesn't really apply as it has a number
> of connotations that aren't appropriate here.
Thanks for clarification.
>
>> In manager app I see something called /files , not sure as what is
>> this ?
> That is likely to be another webapp, but I have no idea where in the
> manager app you are looking, so I can't really comment.
>
> Remember that Tomcat will (by default) auto-deploy any directory in
> the CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory -- even those that you don't
> consider to be a legitimate webapp. So, if you have a directory called
> "files" in there, then Tomcat will deploy that into "/files" and
> possibly expose some resources that you hadn't intended to be
> available via HTTP.
Kiran : Yup, Had an empty files folder inside webapps and this was
showing up.
Many thanks Chris,Appreciate your assistance.
> - -chris
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Vishwanath Washimkar <vw...@gmail.com>.
Chris
I like your approach.
Thanks all I learned the tomcat context concept from your guys...need to
look into it.
Vishwanath
On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 8:13 AM, Christopher Schultz <
chris@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
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> Kiran,
>
> On 9/11/12 10:44 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> > On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> >> Regarding the aliases feature:
> >>
> >> single path -> multiple file paths: No multiple different
> >> non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
> >>
> >> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is
> >> present in documentation.
> > Thanks Konstantin, it seems to be working perfectly fine.
> >
> > This is how I am doing it now,
> >
> > <Context
> >
> aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages,/st=c:/st,/sb=c:/sb,/UploadedImages/scr=c:/UploadedImages/scr,/UploadedImages/scyr=c:/UploadedImages/scyr,/UploadedImages/sem=c:/UploadedImages/sem">
> >
> >
> >
> > Now I have one clarification, I am going need close to 150
> > categories(think of marketplace) and there will be fair amount of
> > images upload which my users will be doing.
> >
> > I expect the aliases to grow till 150 to 200 paths, do you feel
> > this is correct.I am not sure as how large sites deal when they
> > have heavy volumes of images getting uploaded on daily basis.
>
> Large sites will use a single URL that ends up resolving the images
> from some kind of data source. That data source might be a disk (e.g.
> you could forward to the DefaultServlet) or a database (relational or
> otherwise) where you would write your own servlet to retrieve the data
> yourself.
>
> I would use a servlet that gets the image identifier from the request
> parameters or "path info" and then continues from there. As Konstantin
> points out, using Tomcat's "aliases" feature means that these requests
> may have to perform a linear search through all the aliases to find
> the requested resource. If you write a custom servlet, it will likely
> perform much better than that.
>
> Hope that helps,
> - -chris
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Kiran,
On 9/23/12 12:10 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> On 9/17/2012 10:20 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> If you instead implemented your own "aliases" feature using a
>> servlet, you could do it in a smarter way because you understand
>> your own URL space: you might always know that /images/X will
>> translate directly into /file/place/on/the/disk/X and you don't
>> have to do a prefix match. You could do something like this:
>>
>> // configured once Map<String,File> dirMapping = ...; String
>> imageURIPrefix = "/images/";
>>
>> // For each request: String uri = request.getRequestURI(); String
>> imageDirStr = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf('/')); File dir =
>> dirMapping.get(imageDirStr);
>>
>> Now you know where your file should be, and there wasn't any
>> linear lookup: it was all done using hashes.
>
> Ah, I can implement it, if my understanding is correct, what you
> are suggesting here is that grab the incoming url, check if they
> are making a request to Images, if yes then point the url to the
> appropriate directory of images for serving.I can do this if it
> gives me good performance.
>
> I was under impression that Tomcat checks for the alias only once
> during it start up phase and somehow maintains the list of it in
> memory and will do automatic match without scanning each alias.My
> bad.
Tomcat must perform the "scan" for every request.
> Alias as per my understanding is the one of the places where
> Tomcat looks for resources to serve for the requests.
Correct. It's just that the specification is such that it can't be
that smart about finding resources without taking a snapshot of the
whole view of the filesystem and caching it in memory (which itself
isn't very smart).
>> Probably not: the suggestion was to use, say, ${imagePrefix} in
>> your context's aliases setup to simplify the re-location of your
>> image root on disk.
>
> I did not get this probably one of the reasons could be I am still
> struggling to come to speed.I might need some more days to think as
> what this means in terms of implementation.
Uh, okay.
- -chris
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
On 9/17/2012 10:20 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> If you instead implemented your own "aliases" feature using a servlet,
> you could do it in a smarter way because you understand your own URL
> space: you might always know that /images/X will translate directly
> into /file/place/on/the/disk/X and you don't have to do a prefix
> match. You could do something like this:
>
> // configured once
> Map<String,File> dirMapping = ...;
> String imageURIPrefix = "/images/";
>
> // For each request:
> String uri = request.getRequestURI();
> String imageDirStr = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf('/'));
> File dir = dirMapping.get(imageDirStr);
>
> Now you know where your file should be, and there wasn't any linear
> lookup: it was all done using hashes.
Ah, I can implement it, if my understanding is correct, what you are
suggesting here is that grab the incoming url, check if they are making
a request to Images, if yes then point the url to the appropriate
directory of images for serving.I can do this if it gives me good
performance.
I was under impression that Tomcat checks for the alias only once during
it start up phase and somehow maintains the list of it in memory and
will do automatic match without scanning each alias.My bad.
Alias as per my understanding is the one of the places where Tomcat
looks for resources to serve for the requests.
Probably not: the suggestion was to use, say, ${imagePrefix} in your
context's aliases setup to simplify the re-location of your image root
on disk.
I did not get this probably one of the reasons could be I am still
struggling to come to speed.I might need some more days to think as what
this means in terms of implementation.
There's really only one rule for servlet programming:
Don't use class-level data that changes.
There are other considerations, of course, but a servlet is not a
sacred beast. There's only one way to learn how to do it properly:
fall on your face a few times.
Yes I understand this somewhat and thats the reason probably I am
somewhat hesitating to reuse some of classes and thats increasing size
of my code and probably duplicating my code.But again there are some
good things, I can extend those classes in future and can bring down
those modules if required without impacting any thing or making an
changes to existing code.This is only plus point I can see
now.Everything now is independent of each other. Finally at least I am
enjoying doing something good rather than finding silly bugs and chasing
developers for fixing those.
I will upgrade to 7.30 shortly if it saves me some memory.
Thanks Chris and Konstantin.Appreciate your guidance.
Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Kiran,
On 9/13/12 8:24 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> On 9/13/2012 8:13 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
>> Large sites will use a single URL that ends up resolving the
>> images from some kind of data source. That data source might be a
>> disk (e.g. you could forward to the DefaultServlet) or a database
>> (relational or otherwise) where you would write your own servlet
>> to retrieve the data yourself.
>>
>> I would use a servlet that gets the image identifier from the
>> request parameters or "path info" and then continues from there.
>> As Konstantin points out, using Tomcat's "aliases" feature means
>> that these requests may have to perform a linear search through
>> all the aliases to find the requested resource. If you write a
>> custom servlet, it will likely perform much better than that.
>
> this is what I am doing it right now and maybe bit different from
> what large sites do.I can see the point and can write filter which
> will scan the request url and point it to respective images
> directory and then serve it.
>
> I store the images in the respective directory, for example for
> category A with subcategory sc, I store in C://A/sc and then write
> images names to the database.
>
> and via jsp
>
> I get this in this format,
>
> img src ="A/test/{Imagename}" with image name coming from the
> database.
>
> Below is way it looks in requests.
>
> URL Method Result Type Received Taken Initiator
> Wait Start Request Response Cache read Gap
> /our/UploadedImages/sc/cl1.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg
> 40.73 KB 0.54 s <img> 219 0 405 141 0 967
> /our/UploadedImages/sc/cl2.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg
> 45.33 KB 327 ms <img> 219 0 249 78 0 1186
> /our/UploadedImages/sc/cl3.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg
> 26.39 KB 405 ms <img> 219 0 140 265 0 1108
> /our/UploadedImages/sc/cl4.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg
> 40.73 KB 0.51 s <img> 219 0 281 234 0 998
> /our/UploadedImages/sc/cl5.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg
> 23.43 KB 0.51 s <img> 219 0 405 110 0
>
> However I am not getting if I am writing the single servlet which
> resolves the images uri, how will it help in improving performance
> ? If Images are in different directories, isn't tomcat needs to
> scan that directory and resolve it?
I'll explain below.
> Initially I had a single directory,but though it would be nightmare
> in case of maintenance, so thought of refactoring it now.
>
>> 3. Having 200 aliases means that Tomcat would have to try 200
>> different prefixes for each resource lookup. Maybe it would not
>> be noticeable (compared to the other time spent in delivering a
>> response), but it still seems like a waste of time.
>
> Why should it do resource lookup when I am telling it to look at
> the exact directory by giving it the exact name of the file ? In
> fact while storing also I am giving it the exact directory path to
> where it needs to store ?
Tomcat keeps a list of aliases that you configure. I haven't looked at
the lookup algorithm but a reasonable implementation would be to store
all the aliases in a big unsorted list and scan them linearly each
time. If you configure 200 aliases, Tomcat will have to scan, on
average, 50% of them to find the alias being used if a match is going
to be found (it's worse when you know a match won't be found, because
Tomcat has to scan all 200 aliases and not find a match). Since
"aliases" are applied to all URLs, that means that even requests for
non-images will require Tomcat to scan this list. (I'm not sure how
the precedence works with url-mapped servlets, etc... it's possible
that Tomcat will route requests to servlets that have a mapping that
that aliases will not come into play).
By "scan" I really mean prefix-match: you have to take the incoming
URL and see if *any* of the aliases match. There is no good way to
optimize that operation because it's a prefix match of paths.
If you instead implemented your own "aliases" feature using a servlet,
you could do it in a smarter way because you understand your own URL
space: you might always know that /images/X will translate directly
into /file/place/on/the/disk/X and you don't have to do a prefix
match. You could do something like this:
// configured once
Map<String,File> dirMapping = ...;
String imageURIPrefix = "/images/";
// For each request:
String uri = request.getRequestURI();
String imageDirStr = uri.substring(0, uri.indexOf('/'));
File dir = dirMapping.get(imageDirStr);
Now you know where your file should be, and there wasn't any linear
lookup: it was all done using hashes.
> Do you believe my understanding the way aliases works is incorrect
> ?
I'm not sure what your understanding of aliases is.
>> [Konstantin Kolonko said:] 2. It is possible to define a system
>> property (via -D in the options list at startup, or via
>> catalina.properties file) and reference it as ${propname}.
>
> This approach will require me to refactor my existing code,so I
> will think of using this in my next module.
Probably not: the suggestion was to use, say, ${imagePrefix} in your
context's aliases setup to simplify the re-location of your image root
on disk.
> There are couple of things I am planning to get it dynamically ,but
> again somewhat scared if I can ever write thread safe
> servlets/classes which can serve multiple concurrent requests.
There's really only one rule for servlet programming:
Don't use class-level data that changes.
There are other considerations, of course, but a servlet is not a
sacred beast. There's only one way to learn how to do it properly:
fall on your face a few times. :)
> Currently I have close to 50% of code which is reused.But I need to
> deal with this sooner the better else I am going to have war file
> which will be atleast 40mb in size with unmanageable number of
> jsp/servlets/beans.
>
> Thanks Chris and Konstantio for replies.Currently I am on
> 7.027/7.011 and maybe after some days, I will upgrade to 7.030 or
> still better have one more TC for testing purpose.
7.0.30 has some significant memory optimizations. You might want to
upgrade sooner rather than later.
- -chris
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
On 9/13/2012 8:13 AM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
> Large sites will use a single URL that ends up resolving the images
> from some kind of data source. That data source might be a disk (e.g.
> you could forward to the DefaultServlet) or a database (relational or
> otherwise) where you would write your own servlet to retrieve the data
> yourself.
>
> I would use a servlet that gets the image identifier from the request
> parameters or "path info" and then continues from there. As Konstantin
> points out, using Tomcat's "aliases" feature means that these requests
> may have to perform a linear search through all the aliases to find
> the requested resource. If you write a custom servlet, it will likely
> perform much better than that.
this is what I am doing it right now and maybe bit different from what
large sites do.I can see the point and can write filter which will scan
the request url and point it to respective images directory and then
serve it.
I store the images in the respective directory, for example for category
A with subcategory sc, I store in C://A/sc and then write images names
to the database.
and via jsp
I get this in this format,
img src ="A/test/{Imagename}" with image name coming from the database.
Below is way it looks in requests.
URL Method Result Type Received Taken Initiator
Wait Start Request Response Cache read Gap
/our/UploadedImages/sc/cl1.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg 40.73
KB 0.54 s <img> 219 0 405 141 0 967
/our/UploadedImages/sc/cl2.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg 45.33
KB 327 ms <img> 219 0 249 78 0 1186
/our/UploadedImages/sc/cl3.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg 26.39
KB 405 ms <img> 219 0 140 265 0 1108
/our/UploadedImages/sc/cl4.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg 40.73
KB 0.51 s <img> 219 0 281 234 0 998
/our/UploadedImages/sc/cl5.jpg GET 200 image/jpeg 23.43
KB 0.51 s <img> 219 0 405 110 0
However I am not getting if I am writing the single servlet which
resolves the images uri, how will it help in improving performance ? If
Images are in different directories, isn't tomcat needs to scan that
directory and resolve it ?
Initially I had a single directory,but though it would be nightmare in
case of maintenance, so thought of refactoring it now.
>>>>
3. Having 200 aliases means that Tomcat would have to try 200
different prefixes for each resource lookup. Maybe it would not be
noticeable (compared to the other time spent in delivering a
response), but it still seems like a waste of time.
Why should it do resource lookup when I am telling it to look at the exact directory by giving it the exact name of the file ? In fact while storing also I am
giving it the exact directory path to where it needs to store ?
Do you believe my understanding the way aliases works is incorrect ?
>>>2. It is possible to define a system property (via -D in the options
list at startup, or via catalina.properties file) and reference it as
${propname}.
This approach will require me to refactor my existing code,so I will think of using this in my next module.There are couple of things I am planning to get it dynamically ,but again somewhat scared if I can ever write thread safe servlets/classes which can serve multiple concurrent requests.Currently I have close to 50% of code which is reused.But I need to deal with this sooner the better else I am going to have war file which will be atleast 40mb in size with unmanageable number of jsp/servlets/beans.
Thanks Chris and Konstantio for replies.Currently I am on 7.027/7.011 and maybe after some days, I will upgrade to 7.030 or still better have one more TC for testing purpose.
- Kiran Badi
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
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Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Kiran,
On 9/11/12 10:44 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>> Regarding the aliases feature:
>>
>> single path -> multiple file paths: No multiple different
>> non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
>>
>> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is
>> present in documentation.
> Thanks Konstantin, it seems to be working perfectly fine.
>
> This is how I am doing it now,
>
> <Context
> aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages,/st=c:/st,/sb=c:/sb,/UploadedImages/scr=c:/UploadedImages/scr,/UploadedImages/scyr=c:/UploadedImages/scyr,/UploadedImages/sem=c:/UploadedImages/sem">
>
>
>
> Now I have one clarification, I am going need close to 150
> categories(think of marketplace) and there will be fair amount of
> images upload which my users will be doing.
>
> I expect the aliases to grow till 150 to 200 paths, do you feel
> this is correct.I am not sure as how large sites deal when they
> have heavy volumes of images getting uploaded on daily basis.
Large sites will use a single URL that ends up resolving the images
from some kind of data source. That data source might be a disk (e.g.
you could forward to the DefaultServlet) or a database (relational or
otherwise) where you would write your own servlet to retrieve the data
yourself.
I would use a servlet that gets the image identifier from the request
parameters or "path info" and then continues from there. As Konstantin
points out, using Tomcat's "aliases" feature means that these requests
may have to perform a linear search through all the aliases to find
the requested resource. If you write a custom servlet, it will likely
perform much better than that.
Hope that helps,
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Posted by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>.
2012/9/12 Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>:
> On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
>>
>> Regarding the aliases feature:
>>
>> single path -> multiple file paths: No
>> multiple different non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
>>
>> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is present
>> in documentation.
>
> Thanks Konstantin, it seems to be working perfectly fine.
>
> This is how I am doing it now,
>
> <Context
> aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages,/st=c:/st,/sb=c:/sb,/UploadedImages/scr=c:/UploadedImages/scr,/UploadedImages/scyr=c:/UploadedImages/scyr,/UploadedImages/sem=c:/UploadedImages/sem">
>
> Now I have one clarification, I am going need close to 150 categories(think
> of marketplace) and there will be fair amount of images upload which my
> users will be doing.
>
> I expect the aliases to grow till 150 to 200 paths, do you feel this is
> correct.I am not sure as how large sites deal when they have heavy volumes
> of images getting uploaded on daily basis.
>
> Do I need to cautious here on anything.
1. You can add whitespace around ',' and '=' for better readability.
(I do not remember whether 7.0.27 allows it, but 7.0.30 should allow
whitespace there).
2. It is possible to define a system property (via -D in the options
list at startup, or via catalina.properties file) and reference it as
${propname}.
3. Having 200 aliases means that Tomcat would have to try 200
different prefixes for each resource lookup. Maybe it would not be
noticeable (compared to the other time spent in delivering a
response), but it still seems like a waste of time.
Best regards,
Konstantin Kolinko
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Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> Regarding the aliases feature:
>
> single path -> multiple file paths: No
> multiple different non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
>
> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is present
> in documentation.
Thanks Konstantin, it seems to be working perfectly fine.
This is how I am doing it now,
<Context
aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages,/st=c:/st,/sb=c:/sb,/UploadedImages/scr=c:/UploadedImages/scr,/UploadedImages/scyr=c:/UploadedImages/scyr,/UploadedImages/sem=c:/UploadedImages/sem">
Now I have one clarification, I am going need close to 150
categories(think of marketplace) and there will be fair amount of images
upload which my users will be doing.
I expect the aliases to grow till 150 to 200 paths, do you feel this is
correct.I am not sure as how large sites deal when they have heavy
volumes of images getting uploaded on daily basis.
Do I need to cautious here on anything.
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Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
Thanks Konstantin, I will check this and revert back.
On 9/8/2012 4:09 PM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2012/9/8 Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>:
>> Hi Chris and All,
>>
>> I hope its alright if I reopen my old thread since I want to expand my
>> earlier requirement.
>>
>> I have a requirement where for each category I need to have separate
>> folders where the Images should go in.
>>
>> Currently for all categories my images goes into the C://UploadedImages
>> folder and it working fine.
>>
>> <Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
>>
>> Now I was wondering , if its possible that I can do something like,
>>
>> <Context
>> aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/Uploaded/Images/Product1Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product2Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product3Images.....c:/UploadedImages/ProductNImages"></Context>
> Regarding the aliases feature:
>
> single path -> multiple file paths: No
> multiple different non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
>
> As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is present
> in documentation.
>
> Best regards,
> Konstantin Kolinko
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
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Posted by Konstantin Kolinko <kn...@gmail.com>.
2012/9/8 Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>:
> Hi Chris and All,
>
> I hope its alright if I reopen my old thread since I want to expand my
> earlier requirement.
>
> I have a requirement where for each category I need to have separate
> folders where the Images should go in.
>
> Currently for all categories my images goes into the C://UploadedImages
> folder and it working fine.
>
> <Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
>
> Now I was wondering , if its possible that I can do something like,
>
> <Context
> aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/Uploaded/Images/Product1Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product2Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product3Images.....c:/UploadedImages/ProductNImages"></Context>
Regarding the aliases feature:
single path -> multiple file paths: No
multiple different non-intersecting paths -> multiple file paths: Yes
As far as I remember, an example of using multiple aliases is present
in documentation.
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Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
Hi Chris and All,
I hope its alright if I reopen my old thread since I want to expand my
earlier requirement.
I have a requirement where for each category I need to have separate
folders where the Images should go in.
Currently for all categories my images goes into the C://UploadedImages
folder and it working fine.
<Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
Now I was wondering , if its possible that I can do something like,
<Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/Uploaded/Images/Product1Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product2Images,c:/UploadedImages/Product3Images.....c:/UploadedImages/ProductNImages"></Context>
I should be having 100+ products with somewhat similar design in
nature,I just want to put them in their own folders.
Can I do this with Tomcat 7.027 or latest version.I can upgrade if
required.I remember sometimes back this was requirement for one of the
posters here and I believe someone had asked him to file for enhancement
request.So was wondering if this can be done now.
If this cannot be done with Tomcat, is their any other open source
solution for this.I can code couple of lines if this saves me some bugs.
On 6/5/2012 7:41 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Kiran,
>
> On 6/5/12 1:31 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>> After playing around for a day,
>>
>> this is another solutions which worked for me,
>>
>> <Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
>> with Tomcat 7.0.11 in context.xml
> Good, except that you should really upgrade to the latest Tomcat 7.0
> version. Plenty of security fixed have been shipped since 7.0.11.
>
>> I think now I understand as how aliases work, /UploadedImages is
>> the aliaspath and c:/UploadedImages is the docbase to which it
>> refers.
>>
>> Is this understanding correct ?
> /UploadedImages is the URL where resources in C:\UploadedImages can be
> requested. The term "docbase" doesn't really apply as it has a number
> of connotations that aren't appropriate here.
>
>> In manager app I see something called /files , not sure as what is
>> this ?
> That is likely to be another webapp, but I have no idea where in the
> manager app you are looking, so I can't really comment.
>
> Remember that Tomcat will (by default) auto-deploy any directory in
> the CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory -- even those that you don't
> consider to be a legitimate webapp. So, if you have a directory called
> "files" in there, then Tomcat will deploy that into "/files" and
> possibly expose some resources that you hadn't intended to be
> available via HTTP.
>
> - -chris
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Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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On 6/5/12 1:31 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> After playing around for a day,
>
> this is another solutions which worked for me,
>
> <Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context>
> with Tomcat 7.0.11 in context.xml
Good, except that you should really upgrade to the latest Tomcat 7.0
version. Plenty of security fixed have been shipped since 7.0.11.
> I think now I understand as how aliases work, /UploadedImages is
> the aliaspath and c:/UploadedImages is the docbase to which it
> refers.
>
> Is this understanding correct ?
/UploadedImages is the URL where resources in C:\UploadedImages can be
requested. The term "docbase" doesn't really apply as it has a number
of connotations that aren't appropriate here.
> In manager app I see something called /files , not sure as what is
> this ?
That is likely to be another webapp, but I have no idea where in the
manager app you are looking, so I can't really comment.
Remember that Tomcat will (by default) auto-deploy any directory in
the CATALINA_BASE/webapps directory -- even those that you don't
consider to be a legitimate webapp. So, if you have a directory called
"files" in there, then Tomcat will deploy that into "/files" and
possibly expose some resources that you hadn't intended to be
available via HTTP.
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Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
After playing around for a day,
this is another solutions which worked for me,
<Context aliases="/UploadedImages=c:/UploadedImages"></Context> with
Tomcat 7.0.11 in context.xml
I think now I understand as how aliases work, /UploadedImages is the
aliaspath and c:/UploadedImages is the docbase to which it refers.
Is this understanding correct ?
In manager app I see something called /files , not sure as what is this ?
On 6/2/2012 4:45 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>
> On 6/1/2012 9:27 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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>> Kiran,
>>
>> On 5/31/12 10:37 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>>> Ok I did it this way in TC 7.0.27 as I decided not to touch
>>> Netbeans setup with 7.0.11( I had messed up TC7.0.11 after doing
>>> several trial and error stuff,felt real pain)
>>>
>>> I have TC7.0.27 running as window service which I use it deploy my
>>> latest build everyday.
>>>
>>> In server xml, I added below context between host tags
>>>
>>> <Context path="/myapp/UploadedImages" docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
>>> reloadable="true" crossContext="true" />
>> You shouldn't put<Context> elements in server.xml. Also, using a
>> docBase that has files appear at random can be problematic when it
>> comes to caching, etc. and users often have problems.
> Kiran : I had never thought about caching , and caching is one of key
> features which I am planning to implement.
>>> so I did not use aliases at all, is this good solution or I am
>>> missing something again.
>> Presumably you have an existing webapp that does the upload part: make
>> C:\UploadedImages into an "alias" for that webapp instead of creating
>> a second webapp for it.
> Ok I will give try to create alias and see how it goes.
>
> Thanks.
>>
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On 6/1/2012 9:27 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Kiran,
>
> On 5/31/12 10:37 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>> Ok I did it this way in TC 7.0.27 as I decided not to touch
>> Netbeans setup with 7.0.11( I had messed up TC7.0.11 after doing
>> several trial and error stuff,felt real pain)
>>
>> I have TC7.0.27 running as window service which I use it deploy my
>> latest build everyday.
>>
>> In server xml, I added below context between host tags
>>
>> <Context path="/myapp/UploadedImages" docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
>> reloadable="true" crossContext="true" />
> You shouldn't put<Context> elements in server.xml. Also, using a
> docBase that has files appear at random can be problematic when it
> comes to caching, etc. and users often have problems.
Kiran : I had never thought about caching , and caching is one of key
features which I am planning to implement.
>> so I did not use aliases at all, is this good solution or I am
>> missing something again.
> Presumably you have an existing webapp that does the upload part: make
> C:\UploadedImages into an "alias" for that webapp instead of creating
> a second webapp for it.
Ok I will give try to create alias and see how it goes.
Thanks.
>
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On 5/31/12 10:37 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> Ok I did it this way in TC 7.0.27 as I decided not to touch
> Netbeans setup with 7.0.11( I had messed up TC7.0.11 after doing
> several trial and error stuff,felt real pain)
>
> I have TC7.0.27 running as window service which I use it deploy my
> latest build everyday.
>
> In server xml, I added below context between host tags
>
> <Context path="/myapp/UploadedImages" docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
> reloadable="true" crossContext="true" />
You shouldn't put <Context> elements in server.xml. Also, using a
docBase that has files appear at random can be problematic when it
comes to caching, etc. and users often have problems.
> so I did not use aliases at all, is this good solution or I am
> missing something again.
Presumably you have an existing webapp that does the upload part: make
C:\UploadedImages into an "alias" for that webapp instead of creating
a second webapp for it.
- -chris
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Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
Ok I did it this way in TC 7.0.27 as I decided not to touch Netbeans
setup with 7.0.11( I had messed up TC7.0.11 after doing several trial
and error stuff,felt real pain)
I have TC7.0.27 running as window service which I use it deploy my
latest build everyday.
In server xml, I added below context between host tags
<Context path="/myapp/UploadedImages"
docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
reloadable="true"
crossContext="true" />
so I did not use aliases at all, is this good solution or I am missing
something again.
Appreciate some feedback on this one as I really dont want to have
rework again.
On 5/31/2012 9:33 AM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> On 5/29/2012 8:15 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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>> Kiran,
>>
>> On 5/28/12 6:38 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>>> I am using Tomcat 7.0.11
>> Upgrade. http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
> Yup, I already have 7.0.27 and this one is tied with netbeans and I
> really do not want to disturb this environment.
>>
>>> and environment is win 7 home premium with servlet/jsp/jstl with
>>> netbeans 7.01
>>>
>>> I have form where in I upload the image to the folder C://xx
>>> using apache commons file upload and then store the file name to
>>> the DB.Everything is good till here.
>> Good.
>>
>>> Then when I want to display the same image, I query the database
>>> using servlet and store the image name to attribute like
>>>
>>> request.setAttribute("collegesimg", img);
>>>
>>> now via front end jsp, I want to display the same image stored in
>>> attribute,
>>>
>>> I do
>>>
>>> <img src="C://UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
>>> height="500">
>> Assuming that C://xx and C://UploadedImages are the same thing, then
>> this will work only if your remote user is actually on your own
>> machine (the server). File paths wont work as URLs unless they are
>> local.
> Yes they are same and aware of this information.
>>
>>> Now this works perfectly fine,but FF/Chrome fails saying cannot
>>> load local resources with 404 status.
>>>
>>> Now I can understand that this is FF/Chrome by default do allow to
>>> access local file system on the client.Good till here.
>>>
>>> But I am not able to figure out where do I store the images now so
>>> that I can display it correctly and they remain in place when I
>>> redeploy the app?
>> First, you need to reference them from your web pages using http://
>> URLs like this:
>>
>> <img src="http://server/UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
>> height="500">
>
> Yes I am trying this now,but still getting 404 with
> http://localhost:8080/servername/UploadedImages/image.jpeg(Yes image
> do exist in folder)
> Here is what I tried after reading googling and binging
> I added this to server.xml,
>
> <Context path="/ourstory"
> docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
> reloadable="true"
> crossContext="true" />
> I know something is incorrect here or totally wrong.
>>
>> (Are you sure its appropriate to have images always at 500px and 80%
>> parent-width?)
> I am currently experimenting with designs.Again this is not full
> screenwidth, they are sized based on container sizes.I have form
> enclosed withing div.
>>> Is their any place in Tomcat's dir structure where the folder is
>>> still called root folder and when we undeploy or redeploy , images
>>> still remains intact ?
>> If you put your uploaded pictures into your webapp's deployment
>> directory, you are very likely to have them deleted when your webapp
>> is undeployed. So, put them somewhere else. Since you are using Tomcat
>> 7, your best bet is to use the "alias" feature:
>>
>> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Standard_Implementation
>>
>>
>> (Read about the 'aliases' configuration attribute)
> This aliases feature is really helpful feature.But my bad, I can see
> the importance of this feature,but unfortunately not able to get much
> info on net wrt to Tomcat 7.
> I did try to add context element in Meta-inf/Context.xml and
> server.xml, in all the cases build creation failed probably due to
> malformed context xml.
> I will try again tommarrow.Seems like I need to understand as how
> Netbeans sets up the context for the project and then accordingly I
> need to proceed.
>
> By any chance
>
> Is their any example for this anywhere on Tomcat site ? .
>
> Also I believe that if I implement this aliases , I might not need to
> write streaming servlet to read images or have httpd infront of
> tomcat.I want to avoid both since I already have many jsp/servlets and
> httpd ,i dont see a reason as my application is dynamic and plain DB
> calls.Nothing really complicated.
>
>>
>>> My tomcat 7.0.11 structure looks something like below,
>> It doesn't matter, because you need to put your files elsewhere.
>>
>>> Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache
>>> Tomcat 7.0.11\webapps
>>>
>>> 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR> . 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR>
>>> .. 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> docs 06/12/2011 05:16 AM
>>> <DIR> examples 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR> files
>>> 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> host-manager 06/12/2011 05:16
>>> AM<DIR> manager 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> ROOT
>> If you want to make this server public, you are going to want to
>> undeploy everything you don't need: do you need the host-manager, etc.?
>
> No I dont need these ,I will check and remove once I decide to put
> this on live.
>
> Thanks chris for your reply.
>
>>
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Kiran Badi <ki...@poonam.org>.
On 5/29/2012 8:15 PM, Christopher Schultz wrote:
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> Kiran,
>
> On 5/28/12 6:38 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
>> I am using Tomcat 7.0.11
> Upgrade. http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
Yup, I already have 7.0.27 and this one is tied with netbeans and I
really do not want to disturb this environment.
>
>> and environment is win 7 home premium with servlet/jsp/jstl with
>> netbeans 7.01
>>
>> I have form where in I upload the image to the folder C://xx
>> using apache commons file upload and then store the file name to
>> the DB.Everything is good till here.
> Good.
>
>> Then when I want to display the same image, I query the database
>> using servlet and store the image name to attribute like
>>
>> request.setAttribute("collegesimg", img);
>>
>> now via front end jsp, I want to display the same image stored in
>> attribute,
>>
>> I do
>>
>> <img src="C://UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
>> height="500">
> Assuming that C://xx and C://UploadedImages are the same thing, then
> this will work only if your remote user is actually on your own
> machine (the server). File paths wont work as URLs unless they are local.
Yes they are same and aware of this information.
>
>> Now this works perfectly fine,but FF/Chrome fails saying cannot
>> load local resources with 404 status.
>>
>> Now I can understand that this is FF/Chrome by default do allow to
>> access local file system on the client.Good till here.
>>
>> But I am not able to figure out where do I store the images now so
>> that I can display it correctly and they remain in place when I
>> redeploy the app?
> First, you need to reference them from your web pages using http://
> URLs like this:
>
> <img src="http://server/UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
> height="500">
Yes I am trying this now,but still getting 404 with
http://localhost:8080/servername/UploadedImages/image.jpeg(Yes image do
exist in folder)
Here is what I tried after reading googling and binging
I added this to server.xml,
<Context path="/ourstory"
docBase="c:\UploadedImages"
reloadable="true"
crossContext="true" />
I know something is incorrect here or totally wrong.
>
> (Are you sure its appropriate to have images always at 500px and 80%
> parent-width?)
I am currently experimenting with designs.Again this is not full
screenwidth, they are sized based on container sizes.I have form
enclosed withing div.
>> Is their any place in Tomcat's dir structure where the folder is
>> still called root folder and when we undeploy or redeploy , images
>> still remains intact ?
> If you put your uploaded pictures into your webapp's deployment
> directory, you are very likely to have them deleted when your webapp
> is undeployed. So, put them somewhere else. Since you are using Tomcat
> 7, your best bet is to use the "alias" feature:
>
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Standard_Implementation
>
> (Read about the 'aliases' configuration attribute)
This aliases feature is really helpful feature.But my bad, I can see the
importance of this feature,but unfortunately not able to get much info
on net wrt to Tomcat 7.
I did try to add context element in Meta-inf/Context.xml and server.xml,
in all the cases build creation failed probably due to malformed context
xml.
I will try again tommarrow.Seems like I need to understand as how
Netbeans sets up the context for the project and then accordingly I need
to proceed.
By any chance
Is their any example for this anywhere on Tomcat site ? .
Also I believe that if I implement this aliases , I might not need to
write streaming servlet to read images or have httpd infront of tomcat.I
want to avoid both since I already have many jsp/servlets and httpd ,i
dont see a reason as my application is dynamic and plain DB
calls.Nothing really complicated.
>
>> My tomcat 7.0.11 structure looks something like below,
> It doesn't matter, because you need to put your files elsewhere.
>
>> Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache
>> Tomcat 7.0.11\webapps
>>
>> 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR> . 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR>
>> .. 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> docs 06/12/2011 05:16 AM
>> <DIR> examples 03/30/2012 07:40 AM<DIR> files
>> 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> host-manager 06/12/2011 05:16
>> AM<DIR> manager 06/12/2011 05:16 AM<DIR> ROOT
> If you want to make this server public, you are going to want to
> undeploy everything you don't need: do you need the host-manager, etc.?
No I dont need these ,I will check and remove once I decide to put this
on live.
Thanks chris for your reply.
>
> - -chris
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Re: Where do I store Images in tomcat structure so that I can retrive
it properly in all browsers
Posted by Christopher Schultz <ch...@christopherschultz.net>.
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Kiran,
On 5/28/12 6:38 PM, Kiran Badi wrote:
> I am using Tomcat 7.0.11
Upgrade. http://tomcat.apache.org/security-7.html
> and environment is win 7 home premium with servlet/jsp/jstl with
> netbeans 7.01
>
> I have form where in I upload the image to the folder C://xx
> using apache commons file upload and then store the file name to
> the DB.Everything is good till here.
Good.
> Then when I want to display the same image, I query the database
> using servlet and store the image name to attribute like
>
> request.setAttribute("collegesimg", img);
>
> now via front end jsp, I want to display the same image stored in
> attribute,
>
> I do
>
> <img src="C://UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
> height="500">
Assuming that C://xx and C://UploadedImages are the same thing, then
this will work only if your remote user is actually on your own
machine (the server). File paths wont work as URLs unless they are local.
> Now this works perfectly fine,but FF/Chrome fails saying cannot
> load local resources with 404 status.
>
> Now I can understand that this is FF/Chrome by default do allow to
> access local file system on the client.Good till here.
>
> But I am not able to figure out where do I store the images now so
> that I can display it correctly and they remain in place when I
> redeploy the app?
First, you need to reference them from your web pages using http://
URLs like this:
<img src="http://server/UploadedImages/${collegesimg}" width="80%"
height="500">
(Are you sure its appropriate to have images always at 500px and 80%
parent-width?)
> Is their any place in Tomcat's dir structure where the folder is
> still called root folder and when we undeploy or redeploy , images
> still remains intact ?
If you put your uploaded pictures into your webapp's deployment
directory, you are very likely to have them deleted when your webapp
is undeployed. So, put them somewhere else. Since you are using Tomcat
7, your best bet is to use the "alias" feature:
http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-7.0-doc/config/context.html#Standard_Implementation
(Read about the 'aliases' configuration attribute)
> My tomcat 7.0.11 structure looks something like below,
It doesn't matter, because you need to put your files elsewhere.
> Directory of C:\Program Files\Apache Software Foundation\Apache
> Tomcat 7.0.11\webapps
>
> 03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> . 03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR>
> .. 06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> docs 06/12/2011 05:16 AM
> <DIR> examples 03/30/2012 07:40 AM <DIR> files
> 06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> host-manager 06/12/2011 05:16
> AM <DIR> manager 06/12/2011 05:16 AM <DIR> ROOT
If you want to make this server public, you are going to want to
undeploy everything you don't need: do you need the host-manager, etc.?
- -chris
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