Serve static files with Apache from a .WAR file deployed in JBoss?

Joshua McCulloch

I have setup Apache 2.0.50 and JBoss 3.2.5 using mod_jk2.

My application is defined to operate in the root context
(http://servername/) by creating a WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

I am serving static files (with apache) from a directory off the file
system, by setting the DirectoryRoot variable in httpd.conf. JBoss is
working off a .WAR built from this directory.

Is there any way to reference the unarchived files from Apache?
Currently, they are going to
c:\jboss-3.2.5\server\de fault\tmp\deplo y\tmp17751xxx.w ar. I believe
that the directory name is dynamic, so I can't depend on it.

I guess what I'm asking is how to configure JBoss to deploy wars to a
known location? I'd rather not have to manually unarchive the .WAR
file into a deploy/filename.war/ directory (which I believe I read
about in the FAQ?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Josh

Jul 17 '05 #1

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Raymond DeCampo

Joshua McCulloch wrote:

I have setup Apache 2.0.50 and JBoss 3.2.5 using mod_jk2.

My application is defined to operate in the root context
(http://servername/) by creating a WEB-INF/jboss-web.xml

I am serving static files (with apache) from a directory off the file
system, by setting the DirectoryRoot variable in httpd.conf. JBoss is
working off a .WAR built from this directory.

Is there any way to reference the unarchived files from Apache?
Currently, they are going to
c:\jboss-3.2.5\server\de fault\tmp\deplo y\tmp17751xxx.w ar. I believe
that the directory name is dynamic, so I can't depend on it.

I guess what I'm asking is how to configure JBoss to deploy wars to a
known location? I'd rather not have to manually unarchive the .WAR
file into a deploy/filename.war/ directory (which I believe I read
about in the FAQ?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Josh,

I suspect that you are not telling us what you really want to
accomplish. Why don't you try that?

If you are asking how to make links from your static HTML pages to
content in your WAR, that is not difficult. You have to think like the
web browser. For example, suppose your static stuff is located in
http://www.blah.com/static and you have Apache and JBoss configured so
that your WAR is mapped to http://www.blah.com/app. Then you can link
from say http://www.blah.com/static/index.html with href="../app/index.jsp".

HTH,
Ray
--
XML is the programmer's duct tape.

Jul 17 '05 #2

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