Symbolic links in webapp

hi

using the WS7 Technology Preview 3 build, this works fine for me. for e,g. i have a web app in my home directory and created a symbolic link to /tmp/foo. now, if I mention

<path>/tmp/foo</path> in the server instance's server.xml , the index.jsp gets loaded successfully .

you might want to check out whether the symolic link is indeed accessible in your case.

for eg

ls -la original file symbolic link_file

cat orgiinal file

cat symbolic link_file

last but not least, you can consider using WS7's latest TP3 (technology preview 3), if u r not using it already.

pl. note that WS7 TP3 is not upgradable from WS7 TP2 but supports upgrading from 6.1

chilideveloper at 2007-7-7 2:38:06 >

Okay, I upgraded to TP3 and still the same issue. It sounds to me that in your test you are symlinking your approot, this works fine for me. The problem arises when the symlink occurs below the docroot.

/filesystem/webs/approot/shared --> /filesystem/webs/shared

(so the link is to a directory on the same level as the approot, and is not in the approot)

and the jsp exists in /filesystem/webs/shared so the URI would be:

/shared/foo.jsp

We are trying to do this so we can share jsps (and other such files) between multiple web applications. So, approot, approot2, approot3 and approot4 would all have access to this subset of jsps that are in the shared directory.

thanks,

jess

jesspdx at 2007-7-7 2:38:06 >