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Posted to users@tomcat.apache.org by "J. Ryan Earl" <ry...@dynaconnections.com> on 2005/04/18 20:16:04 UTC
Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Hello,
I'm in the process of bringing an in-house application up under Tomcat.
Previously we were using Jetty as the servlet container, but for various
reason I'm trying to get said application running with Tomcat 5.5.9 and Java
1.5.0.
The problem I'm having is that there are two directories with a large amount
of static files (pictures, videos, documents, and other forms of media) that
are mounted outside of the webapps/ home. Under Jetty, there is a
configuration directive that I can use to export these directories under a
URL path. I'm trying to do that in Tomcat, and the documentation has been
somewhat confusing.
What I've gathered is that this type of configuration should be put under
${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/context.xml however I have been able to do this
successfully. I've tried putting the following in context.xml but it gives
me errors:
<Context path="/DOCS" docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/DOCS"
debug="0">
</Context>
So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static files,
how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary URI?
Ideas?
Thanks in advance,
-ryan
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RE: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Posted by "J. Ryan Earl" <ry...@dynaconnections.com>.
Yea, I accidently hit the send button on the last email before I was done
writing it, but it's working. I just had to create two context files under
conf/Catalina/localhost/
-ryan
-----Original Message-----
From: Gurumoorthy [mailto:g.raghupathy@btinternet.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 1:33 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Did you manage to get it right ?
I would recommend that you use lower case context path name
Regards
Guru
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Ryan Earl" <ry...@dynaconnections.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: RE: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
> Thanks for the reply, I actually figured it a few hours later. I was
trying
> to do 2/ in your list. I added a PICS.xml and a DOCS.xml under the
> ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory which gave me the PICS
> and DOCS contexts. ie:
>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ pwd
> /home/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/conf/Catalina/localhost
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ ls
> DOCS.xml host-manager.xml manager.xml PICS.xml
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml DOCS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/DOCS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QM [mailto:qm300@brandxdev.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:30 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:16:04PM -0500, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> : So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static
files,
> : how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary
> URI?
>
> So, are you trying to
> 1/ have a Tomcat-run webapp serve content that exists outside of the
> context path?
>
> 2/ setup the static content as its own webapp (context)?
>
>
> For #1, the (portable, spec-friendly) way is to write a servlet or
> filter to intercept requests for a given URI, open the matching file as
> an InputStream, and push the data to the client via the Response
> OutputStream.
>
> For #2, I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head so I
> won't waste your time with something that may not work. =) But it's
> definitely possible for a webapp to not exist under the "webapps/"
> directory.
>
> Just make sure said webapp has a WEB-INF directory and a web.xml. Even
> a web.xml of just
> <web-app/>
> should do.
>
> -QM
>
> --
>
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Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Posted by Gurumoorthy <g....@btinternet.com>.
Did you manage to get it right ?
I would recommend that you use lower case context path name
Regards
Guru
----- Original Message -----
From: "J. Ryan Earl" <ry...@dynaconnections.com>
To: "Tomcat Users List" <to...@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2005 6:56 PM
Subject: RE: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
> Thanks for the reply, I actually figured it a few hours later. I was
trying
> to do 2/ in your list. I added a PICS.xml and a DOCS.xml under the
> ${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory which gave me the PICS
> and DOCS contexts. ie:
>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ pwd
> /home/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/conf/Catalina/localhost
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ ls
> DOCS.xml host-manager.xml manager.xml PICS.xml
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> [tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml DOCS.xml
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
> <Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/DOCS"
> privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
> antiJARLocking="false">
> </Context>
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: QM [mailto:qm300@brandxdev.net]
> Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:30 PM
> To: Tomcat Users List
> Subject: Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:16:04PM -0500, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
> : So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static
files,
> : how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary
> URI?
>
> So, are you trying to
> 1/ have a Tomcat-run webapp serve content that exists outside of the
> context path?
>
> 2/ setup the static content as its own webapp (context)?
>
>
> For #1, the (portable, spec-friendly) way is to write a servlet or
> filter to intercept requests for a given URI, open the matching file as
> an InputStream, and push the data to the client via the Response
> OutputStream.
>
> For #2, I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head so I
> won't waste your time with something that may not work. =) But it's
> definitely possible for a webapp to not exist under the "webapps/"
> directory.
>
> Just make sure said webapp has a WEB-INF directory and a web.xml. Even
> a web.xml of just
> <web-app/>
> should do.
>
> -QM
>
> --
>
> software -- http://www.brandxdev.net/
> tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com/
> code scan -- http://www.JxRef.org/
>
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RE: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Posted by "J. Ryan Earl" <ry...@dynaconnections.com>.
Thanks for the reply, I actually figured it a few hours later. I was trying
to do 2/ in your list. I added a PICS.xml and a DOCS.xml under the
${CATALINA_HOME}/conf/Catalina/localhost/ directory which gave me the PICS
and DOCS contexts. ie:
[tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ pwd
/home/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat-5.5.9/conf/Catalina/localhost
[tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ ls
DOCS.xml host-manager.xml manager.xml PICS.xml
[tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
<Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
antiJARLocking="false">
</Context>
[tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml
<Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
antiJARLocking="false">
</Context>
[tomcat@ws06 localhost]$ cat PICS.xml DOCS.xml
<Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/PICS"
privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
antiJARLocking="false">
</Context>
<Context docBase="/mnt/CMFiles/DOCS"
privileged="true" antiResourceLocking="false"
antiJARLocking="false">
</Context>
-----Original Message-----
From: QM [mailto:qm300@brandxdev.net]
Sent: Monday, April 18, 2005 8:30 PM
To: Tomcat Users List
Subject: Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:16:04PM -0500, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
: So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static files,
: how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary
URI?
So, are you trying to
1/ have a Tomcat-run webapp serve content that exists outside of the
context path?
2/ setup the static content as its own webapp (context)?
For #1, the (portable, spec-friendly) way is to write a servlet or
filter to intercept requests for a given URI, open the matching file as
an InputStream, and push the data to the client via the Response
OutputStream.
For #2, I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head so I
won't waste your time with something that may not work. =) But it's
definitely possible for a webapp to not exist under the "webapps/"
directory.
Just make sure said webapp has a WEB-INF directory and a web.xml. Even
a web.xml of just
<web-app/>
should do.
-QM
--
software -- http://www.brandxdev.net/
tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com/
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Re: Need help exporting contexts not under webapps/
Posted by QM <qm...@brandxdev.net>.
On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 01:16:04PM -0500, J. Ryan Earl wrote:
: So my question is, in short, given a directory structure of static files,
: how do you get Tomcat to serve said static content off of an arbitrary URI?
So, are you trying to
1/ have a Tomcat-run webapp serve content that exists outside of the
context path?
2/ setup the static content as its own webapp (context)?
For #1, the (portable, spec-friendly) way is to write a servlet or
filter to intercept requests for a given URI, open the matching file as
an InputStream, and push the data to the client via the Response
OutputStream.
For #2, I don't remember the exact syntax off the top of my head so I
won't waste your time with something that may not work. =) But it's
definitely possible for a webapp to not exist under the "webapps/"
directory.
Just make sure said webapp has a WEB-INF directory and a web.xml. Even
a web.xml of just
<web-app/>
should do.
-QM
--
software -- http://www.brandxdev.net/
tech news -- http://www.RoarNetworX.com/
code scan -- http://www.JxRef.org/
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