Access to directories outside document root?

[Rob Elliott <re...@ubiquitysoftware.com>]

Hello,

Is it possible to obtain access to an arbitrary directory (possibly
mounted file) which is not below the Tomcat webapps directory from
within a webapp? GetServletContext.getRealpath("") seems to only access
directories below the webapp app directory...

Thanks in advance...
Rob.



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Re: Access to directories outside document root?

[Markus Schönhaber <ma...@schoenhaber.de>]

Rob Elliott wrote:
> Is it possible to obtain access to an arbitrary directory (possibly
> mounted file) which is not below the Tomcat webapps directory from
> within a webapp? GetServletContext.getRealpath("") seems to only access
> directories below the webapp app directory...

What exactly do you want to achieve?

For example: If you want the contents of the directory /foo/bar to be 
accessible via, say
http://<your Tomcat>/mybardir
you simply have to create a <Context> definition with the "docBase"-attribute 
set appropriately.

Regards
  mks

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