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ok,

i changed to $(catalina.home)/conf/context.xml
and it changed for all web applications running on tomcat.

BTW, i am not sure what is the procedure to make it for individual 
applications

thank you very much

Manos

Markus Sch�nhaber wrote:
> Manos Moschous wrote:
>   
>> i am trying to enable tomcat to follow symbolic links
>> Unfortunately, i wasnt able to make it work for my web application which
>> is called "mv" and is located
>> to the $(catalina.home)/webapps/mv directory.
>>
>> I tried the options below:
>>
>> 1) touch file to $(catalina.home)/conf/Catalina/localhost/mv.xml
>>
>> <Context docBase="mv" debug="5" crossContext="true" reloadable="true">
>>        <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
>> allowLinking="true"  /> </Context>
>>
>> 2)touch file to $(catalina.home)/webapps/mv/META-INF/context.xml
>>
>> <Context reloadable="true" crossContext="true" path="/mv">
>>        <Resources className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
>> allowLinking="true" /> </Context>
>>
>> 3)Changed server.xml configuration file
>>
>> add inside <Host> ... </Host> tags:
>>
>>  <Context path="/mv" docBase="mv" debug="0" reloadable="true"
>> crossContext="true"> <Resources
>> className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext" allowLinking="true"
>> /> </Context>
>>
>> or
>>    <DefaultContext allowLinking="true" />
>>
>>
>> What am i doing wrong...?
>>     
>
> You set the allowLinking-Attribute on <Resources> where it is useless and 
> ignored. Set it on <Context>:
> http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-5.5-doc/config/context.html
> BTW: variant 3) above (modifying server.xml for Context definitions) isn't 
> recommended.
>
> Regards
>   mks
>
>
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