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Wednesday December 04, 2002

Symlinking now works in Tomcat 4.1.16!

The Tomcat developers turned off the ability to create symbolic links (symlinks) in 4.1.x. This really threw a wrench in my ability to upgrade as I use symlinks to point to resources outside my webapp all the time. I don't do it for jars, but for common image or documentation directories. In Tomcat 4.1.12 (the latest release), you were supposed to be able to turn symlinks back on by adding the following to your app's context:

<Resources
  className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
  allowLinking="true" caseSensitive="false" />

The bad news? This didn't work! I'm happy to report that with the lastest 4.1.16 beta, this does work! So, for instance, if you want to turn on symlinks in the ROOT context, add the following to your server.xml: 

<Context path="" docBase="ROOT" debug="0">
  <Resources
    className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
    allowLinking="true" caseSensitive="false" />
</Context>

Posted in General at Dec 04 2002, 09:10:54 AM MST 2 Comments
Comments:

Is it possible to turn the option 'allowLinking' on in JBOSS? If so, where in the jboss-service.xml should I add the entry you add in server.xml for tomcat. Thanx in advance for any hints:-) Greetz, Agnieszka

Posted by Agnieszka on April 19, 2004 at 06:42 PM MDT #

Google has the answer for you. I searched on "allowLinking tomcat jboss" and found this answer.

Posted by Matt Raible on April 19, 2004 at 06:49 PM MDT #

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