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From: "Ningappa  Koneri" <ningappa.koneri@comviva.com>
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Date: Wed, 16 Sep 2009 17:51:02 +0530
Subject: RE: Question on allowLinking
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Hi Pid,

Thanks for your reply and sorry for the delayed ack.

Basically we are creating a softlink to a directory (containing some sound =
files quite large in size) inside the webapps/project/jsp which we don't wa=
nt to put directly under the application's project directory.

Is there any other settings I need to follow to instruct the tomcat not to =
delete the softlink contents ?


Thanks & Regards,
Ningappa Koneri
mLifestyle | www.comviva.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Pid [mailto:pid@pidster.com]
Sent: Thursday, August 20, 2009 2:08 PM
To: users@tomcat.apache.org
Subject: Re: Question on allowLinking

On 20/08/2009 07:52, Nachiketh G Rao wrote:
> Hi,
> I had a query regarding Tomcat 6.X. We are developing a web application w=
hich will be using soft-links for files on a the server. To do this we have=
 set allowLinking property to true in the "context.xml" configuration. We h=
ave observed that, upon un-deploying the .war file by deleting it from the =
webapps directory, all the contents under the soft link get deleted as well=
! We do not want this to happen, how do we ensure that only the soft link i=
nside the .war file gets deleted.

What are you linking, exactly, that needs to be inside the web
application directory?

If it's just images and styles, (for example), you should make them
available via a URL external to the application itself.  You could use a
multi-level war file to make the URLs appear inside the app's URL space.

  myapp.war         >  /myapp/
  myapp#scripts.war >  /myapp/scripts/

Tomcat *will* remove the contents of the deployed directory when you
undeploy it, this is intentional - otherwise how could you update an
application?

p


> Regards,
> Nachiketh
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