Mapping a directory outside the web-app to URL in TOMCAT

Question

I need to map an directory containing images which resides outside tomcat webapps folder, so that application can serve those images.

I am making a J2EE Web applicat

Answer 1

I had the same issue but found a solution.

If you are using Eclipse and a Tomcat plugin then please note that the Eclipse Tomcat plugin creates a separate CATALINA_BASE under the Eclipse workspace directory.

You can go to this location and you will find server.xml. Use that server.xml and it will work.

My actual tomcat directory is:

C:\apache-tomcat-7.0.62x64\apache-tomcat-7.0.62\conf

and my Eclipse Tomcat server uses:

C:\workspace\JSF\.metadata\.plugins\org.eclipse.wst.server.core\tmp0\conf 

Use the workspace path and server.xml from this location.

Add this in server.xml inside the host tag:

< Context docBase="D:/personal"  path="/images" />

and it will work if D:/personal has 1.png, and then the url http://localhost:8080/images/1.png will load the image.