Question

I am working around in a problem where i need to create an upload folder in to tomcat base directory so that can place my upload files there don’t want to do this inside the webapps folder.

later on i want to access this folder in my web-application to get that files being uploaded.
though i got success using the below code

File dir = new File(System.getProperty("catalina.base"), "uploads");

but its giving me path like
G:\Program Files\Tomcat 6.0\uploads
from which i can access the files but i want the path something like this

http//localhost:// path to my upload folders

i tried various way to achieve this but nothing has worked.
i was playing around this but it did’t worked out

ServletActionContext.getServletContext().getRealPath()

can any one give me an idea how i can do this?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

Add the following to /conf/server.xml of Tomcat:

<Context docBase="G:\Program Files\Tomcat 6.0\uploads" path="/uploads" />

It’ll be available by http://localhost/uploads