Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-tomcat-user-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 42212 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 15:14:02 -0000 Received: from exchange.sun.com (192.18.33.10) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 15:14:02 -0000 Received: (qmail 10204 invoked by uid 97); 10 Jul 2003 15:16:31 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-tomcat-user@nagoya.betaversion.org Received: (qmail 10197 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 15:16:31 -0000 Received: from daedalus.apache.org (HELO apache.org) (208.185.179.12) by nagoya.betaversion.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 15:16:31 -0000 Received: (qmail 40476 invoked by uid 500); 10 Jul 2003 15:13:41 -0000 Mailing-List: contact tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "Tomcat Users List" Reply-To: "Tomcat Users List" Delivered-To: mailing list tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 40438 invoked from network); 10 Jul 2003 15:13:41 -0000 Received: from mailhub5.isdnet.net (195.154.209.25) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 10 Jul 2003 15:13:41 -0000 Received: from dexem.com (ppp3021-cwdsl.fr.cw.net [62.210.104.22]) by mailhub5.isdnet.net (8.9.3p2/8.9.3) with ESMTP id RAA10263 for ; Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:13:42 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <3F0D8359.7070609@dexem.com> Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2003 17:16:41 +0200 From: Sam Le Berrigaud User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.3) Gecko/20030312 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: How to read/write files located outside WEB-INF References: <20030710145616.29979.qmail@mexico.com> In-Reply-To: <20030710145616.29979.qmail@mexico.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N If you are using Linux, maybe you could try to create a symbolic link in your WEB-INF folder poiting to an external folder... SaM Mariano Rodriguez wrote: >Hi, Im writting this application to edit configuration files. These files are located in several folders in the local filesystem where the tomcat server is running and where my app is also running. >I want to be able to open/writte these files from a JSP but I've found in forums that I can only read/write files located at the WEB-INF folder of my application. Is this true? Is there a way to configure the tomcat server to allow a certain application to use an external folder? >Thank you all in advance for you help. I hope there something I can do to get this working.. its kind of importat. >Best Regards > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tomcat-user-unsubscribe@jakarta.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: tomcat-user-help@jakarta.apache.org