Relative path Issue

[Madi Muthukumaran]

Hi,

I am in need of help from you guys, it's very very urgent.

I will try to explain the problem. I have images stored in my server hard disk say (C:\AllImages). No I need to display the images in my web page, using the <img src=""> tag.

Now the problem is that the application server is in different folder say (F , now how will I give the relative path for the images stored in the C:

Is there any way to implement this thing. Kindly reply as soon as possible.

I deploy my application as a war, the app server can be Weblogic, Jboss, was.

ThanX in advance.

Regards,
Muthu

[Bear Bibeault]

"muthukumaran",

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[ May 05, 2006: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Joseph Erickson]

You won't be able to link directly to those images because they aren't in the web server's directory, but you might be able to link that folder into the web server's root document directory on the F drive. In Windows land, this would probably be done by a shortcut. You could make a shortcut of C:\Allimages, call it "images", and drop the shortcut into the Web Server's root document folder. Then the img tag should be <img src="/images/blah.gif" />

Do you know what the document root folder is for the web server?

[Madi Muthukumaran]

Hi,

ThanX for your reply,

I tried in Websphere 5.2, actually my application will in the form of a war file (Sample.war), so when i deployed it, it will be extracted in the <<websphere_Installation_folder>>\installedapps\nodename\Sample.war.
After i deployed i went there and created a shortcut to the mage folder in F driver. But it is not working.

I tried your option but it's not working. When i try to access image from the browser, i am getting "HTTP 404" error.

Is there any other way to that.

Regards.

[Madi Muthukumaran]

Hi
Thanx every one for the ur reply, i found out the solution for the issue. Instead of displaying the image using the image tag, we can directly read the image file and write it to the output stream of the response object. Following is the code sample.

String mimiMappings[] = {"application/pdf pdf PDF", "application/msword DOC doc"};
MimetypesFileTypeMap mimeType = new MimetypesFileTypeMap();
mimeType.addMimeTypes(mimiMappings);

response.setContentType(mimeType.getContentType(certImagePath));
InputStream certFile = new FileInputStream(new File("ImageFile.jpg"));
OutputStream respOutStream = response.getOutputStream();

// Transfer bytes from in to out
byte[] buf = new byte[1024];
int len;
while ((len = certFile.read(buf)) > 0)
{
respOutStream.write(buf, 0, len);
}
certFile.close();
respOutStream.flush();
respOutStream.close();

Regards
Muthu