Path mapping...

[Peter Björkman <pe...@josh.se>]

Hi! I have a web-app residing in "/", the docBase is relative to appBase. I have an issue where I want to serve static files located outside the web-app. For example:

/mydir/index.jsp
comes from the relative docBase as usual.
/images/myimage.gif
comes from /var/static/images/myimage.gif, an absolut directory in the servers filesystem.

Is this possible without creating a separate web-app with another docBase? Could you map "/images" to that file system path  "/var/static/images/"? I've been looking through the documentation (5.0) for this, but cannot find it anywhere...

Regards
Peter
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Re: Path mapping...

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