How to config Tomcat to serve images from an external folder outside webapps? [duplicate]

by

This is the way I did it and it worked fine for me. (done on Tomcat 7.x)

Add a <context> to the tomcat/conf/server.xml file.

Windows example:

<Context docBase="c:\Documents and Settings\The User\images" path="/project/images" />

Linux example:

<Context docBase="/var/project/images" path="/project/images" />

Like this (in context):

<Server port="8025" shutdown="SHUTDOWN">
 ...
  <Service name="Catalina">
    ...
    <Engine defaultHost="localhost" name="Catalina">
     ...
     <Host appBase="webapps"
      autoDeploy="false" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true"
      xmlNamespaceAware="false" xmlValidation="false">
      ...
      <!--MAGIC LINE GOES HERE-->
       <Context  docBase="/var/project/images" path="/project/images" />

      </Host>
    </Engine>
  </Service>
</Server>

In this way, you should be able to find the files (e.g. /var/project/images/NameOfImage.jpg) under:

http://localhost:8080/project/images/NameOfImage.jpg

More Related Contents:

  1. Recommended way to save uploaded files in a servlet application
  2. Set CORS header in Tomcat
  3. How to deploy EJB based application on Tomcat
  4. Is there a max size for POST parameter content?
  5. java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid in servlet mapping
  6. How to run different apps on single Tomcat instance behind different ports?
  7. Does Tomcat load the same library file into memory twice if they are in two web apps?
  8. Can’t access Tomcat using IP address
  9. How do you configure tomcat to bind to a single ip address (localhost) instead of all addresses?
  10. How to change Apache Tomcat web server port number [closed]
  11. Tomcat 10.x throws java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError on javax.servlet.* [duplicate]
  12. IntelliJ and Tomcat.. Howto..?
  13. Is it possible change date in docker container?
  14. Access-Control-Allow-Origin: * in tomcat
  15. Tomcat: LifecycleException when deploying
  16. org.apache.tomcat.util.bcel.classfile.ClassFormatException: Invalid byte tag in constant pool: 15 – Tomcat 7, JDK incompatibilty? [duplicate]
  17. Is Tomcat running?
  18. How does Tomcat locate the webapps directory?
  19. How to use HttpServletRequest#getParts() in a servlet filter running on Tomcat?
  20. Error starting Tomcat from NetBeans – ‘127.0.0.1*’ is not recognized as an internal or external command
  21. Access Tomcat Manager App from different host
  22. CORS – Tomcat – Geoserver
  23. How do I load a java class (not a servlet) when the tomcat server starts [duplicate]
  24. How to set the max size of upload file
  25. What is the difference between Tomcat’s BIO Connector and NIO Connector?
  26. How does Tomcat find the HOME PAGE of my Web App?
  27. tomcat auto start servlet [duplicate]
  28. how to enable hot deploy in tomcat
  29. Enabling SSL on tomcat using pem file
  30. How to avoid storing passwords in the clear for tomcat’s server.xml Resource definition of a DataSource?

Leave a Comment