create symbolic link for access file using tomcat 9 - not working

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I am migrating tomcat 7 to tomcat 9.0.33, below are the symbolic link access config for tomcat 7 but the link is not working on tomcat, can anyone pls suggest how to fix this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <Context path="/" docBase="/usr/local/apache-tomcat-7.0.63/webapps/ROOT" allowLinking="true" deployXML="false">

centos 7, in my webapp/ROOT i have linked few folder which i need to access using localhost/foldername/abc.png, In tomcat 7 using above config is working well — Mugeesh Husain, Apr 02 '20 at 04:30
I have put above ROOX.xml file inside /usr/local/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/ROOT.xml — Mugeesh Husain, Apr 02 '20 at 06:16

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 02 '20 at 09:58

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in tomcat 9 & 8 need to add into tomcat/conf/context.xml

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

got help from here

answered Apr 02 '20 at 09:58

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This, and lots of other useful information is in the migration guide: http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-8.html http://tomcat.apache.org/migration-9.html – Mark Thomas Apr 03 '20 at 19:27

create symbolic link for access file using tomcat 9 - not working

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