Tomcat external directory mapping

Question

I have a javaEE application where I use Tomcat 8. In it, I mapped an external folder to save the images that the user can register on one of my application screens. To do this, I went to the server.xml file of my Tomcat and did the mapping. Everything was working well for a long time, only yesterday, I ended up deleting Tomcat 8 and had to add it again. As a result, I had to redo the mapping configuration in the server.xml file.

When redoing the configuration, simply mapping does not work anymore. I already gave a clear in Tomcat, I already gave a clear and update project in Maven, and nothing. The context of my application is '/Picos' and I can access it through

localhost:8080/Picos

From there, in an attempt to redo the configuration, I went to the Tomcat.xml server and added<Context docBase="C:\Picos\images" path="/images" /> within the tag <Host appBase="webapps" autoDeploy="true" name="localhost" unpackWARs="true">, and simply when I put the address in the browser localhost:8080/Picos/images/1.png (remembering that 1.png image exists inside C: Picos images folder) I get 404 error.

What I’m doing wrong, since before the crash of deleting the Tomcat server in eclipise, everything was working perfectly. Am I missing any other settings? Any tips? Thank you

Answer 1

I solved the problem. I think it is fair to leave the solution here, since many may end up leaving it unnoticed. When I add a project to mu Tomcat server, the line <Context docBase="Picos" path="/Picos" reloadable="true" source="org.eclipse.jst.jee.server:Picos"/> is added to my server.xml. Thus, the context path to map the external directory has to add the context path above. Would look like this <Context docBase="C:\Picos\images" path="/Picos/images" /> and not <Context docBase="C:\Picos\images" path="/images" />

I hope it helps =)