Re: [Bodington-developers] Setting the location of uploaded files...

[M T. <m....@gm...>]

Hmmm so are there any plans to make it possible to loacte the files
out side of the context?

M.

On 18/07/06, Matthew Buckett <mat...@ou...> wrote:
> M Thomas wrote:
> > Hmmmmm...
> >
> > No
> >
> > :-(
>
> This was a no to working in 2.4?
>
> When I was doing work on the quickstart I changed a few things which is
> why you don't need the context path in your configuration file (why have
> stuff in the configuration file you can figure out at runtime?).
>
> It would seem sensible that these directories could live outside the
> context the reason they don't is that at the moment a request dispatcher
> is used to serve up the file and it can only serve up from within the
> context. Building servlet has support for writing out the file itself
> but it isn't quite there.
>
> BTW: We here at Oxford use symlinks for files and generated to keep them
> outside the webapp but this is a Unix hack.
>
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