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From: "Bill Barker" <wbarker@wilshire.com>
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Subject: Re: Annoyance in the deployer
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 2004 10:48:14 -0800
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Remy Maucherat" <remm@apache.org>
To: "Tomcat Developers List" <tomcat-dev@jakarta.apache.org>
Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 9:39 AM
Subject: Annoyance in the deployer


>Hi,
>
>Not something major, but there's that in the deployer:
>                // Make sure there is an application configuration 
> directory
>                // This is needed if the Context appBase is the same as the
>                // web server document root to make sure only web 
> applications
>                // are deployed and not directories for web space.
>                File webInf = new File(dir, "/WEB-INF");
>                if (!webInf.exists() || !webInf.isDirectory() ||
>                    !webInf.canRead())
>                    continue;
>
>Is that really useful ? I ask because it prevents dropping a folder 
>containing a bunch of files in webapps (without creating a stupid WEB-INF 
>folder), which could be annoying.
>
Actually, I recently had a case where someone accidentally deleted WEB-INF 
on a development box.  When the Context didn't load, the problem was noticed 
immediately :).

Personally, I like the check (but won't veto the change).  But then, I 
believe that dropping in a folder containing a bunch of static files is what 
the Alias directive in Apache/httpd is for ;-).

>R�my


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