symlinking tomcat 8 directory resources

Question

I would like to symlink JSP directories under Tomcat 8.
It worked as well in Tomcat 7 on this way:

Answer 1

To enable Tomcat to access symbolic links do the following:

$CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml

Tomcat 7:

<Context allowLinking="true">
...

Tomcat 8:

<Context>
    <Resources allowLinking="true" />
...

DO NOT DO THIS ON WINDOWS (or any other case-insensitive filesystem), as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code disclosure, among other security problems.

http://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html

Answer 2

It seems you need a separate "webAppMount" property.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<Context path="/">
    <Resources>
        <PreResources
            className="org.apache.catalina.webresources.DirResourceSet"
            base="/FilePath/.../Resources"
            webAppMount="/resources"
            internalPath="/"/>
    </Resources>
 </Context>

This worked for me. It is in my web-app's META-INF/context.xml