How to access the folders outside Tomcat

Published on September 7, 2010 by Amir Sedighi

The best way for accessing the folders outside Tomcat webapps folder is mapping folders using mount-points. Assume the application folder located in below path: (MyApplication)

/home/amir/java/tomcat/webapps/MyApplication/

I need to upload files into another machine so I just created a folder “hugeSizeFolder” into the “MyApplication” folder.
Then I mapped it to a remote shared folder.
Assume the remote shared folder located in : “//192.168.137.69/shareStorage”.
Then just follow below steps:

$ mkdir /home/amir/java/tomcat/webapps/MyApplication/hugeSizeFolder
$ sudo chmod -R 777 /home/amir/java/tomcat/webapps/MyApplication/hugeSizeFolder
$ sudo smbmount //192.168.137.69/shareStorage   /home/amir/java/tomcat/webapps/MyApplication/hugeSizeFolder

Done. The local folder will keep synchronize with the remote shared one in OS level automatically. The mapping is transparent to Tomcat.

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