Skanus Meduoliai

I was unable to do so, because admin.xml already contains <Context /> tag that points to web application. But I have created another context file images.xml and IT WORKED . Thanks

As I understand this is safe way to share static resources like that?

It have read access right to this directory. I have tried to make this directory WAR style by adding WEB-INF folder with web.xml file, but images were not reachable.

I found another way of getting access to static images outside web application.

You need define context in server.xml inside Tomcat configuration:

server.xml (this have to go into 'Host' tag):
... ... <Host> ... ... <Context docBase="/home/user/admin-images/" path="/images" /> ... ... </Host> ... ...

That way I am able to reach static images like that:
http://localhost:8080/admin/images/234bF5_image/image.jpg

My new question would be:
This way to share static resources is safe? Does it have any disadvantages?

Hello, I would like to share some static images outside of web application WAR file. I found that Tomcat 7 have new functionality that allows to do that easily using new aliases system.

But for me it's not so easy to get it working as described in this site.

I am using Ubuntu 12.10 and Tomcat 7.0.32 version.

My uploaded images are stored like this:
/home/user/admin-images/- -234bF5_image/image.jpg -572d44_otherImage/otherImage.jpg -12A4uR_otherImage/otherImage.jpg

In Tomcat configuration I have two context files: admin.xml and uploads.xml each of them looks like this:

admin.xml:
<Context path="/admin" docBase="path/to/application/target" reloadable="false"> <WatchedResource>WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> <Manager pathname="admin" /> </Context>

uploads.xml:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context path="/admin" aliases="/images=/home/user/admin-images"> </Context>

Application starts but images is not accessible. I try to access them like this:
http//localhost:8080/admin/images/234bF5_image/image.jpg

Anybody knows how to properly use this aliases? Please?