[thredds] thredds v3.16 and symbolic links to catalogues

[Knut Arild Lisæter]

Hi John,

Our "main" catalogue is placed under content/thredds, in that file I 
have placed a number of links (catalogref) to catalogues which lie in 
content/thredds/catalogs - we did it this way to keep things "tidy" and 
it has worked well in version 3.14.

Some of the catalogues  under content/thredds/catalogs are symbolic 
links, and it is for those I get the error messages I mentioned when I 
switch to version 3.16. Just to test I tried to copy one of the linked 
files into content/thredds/catalogs and then  works with 3.16 - so 3.16 
seems to be picky about symbolic links

The solution is obvious, avoid links and copy everything into 
content/thredds/catalogs, but for various reason we would like to keep 
the current setup if possible. If you would like to have a closer look 
on our setup, go to:
http://topaz.nersc.no/thredds/catalog.html

Hope this made it  a bit clearer :-)

Best Regards,
Knut

John Caron wrote:
> Hi Knut:
>
> Currently you need to keep TDS config catalogs under content/thredds.
>
> I assume these are "config catalogs", not just other catalogs you want to reference from a catref?
>
> By "symbolic link" do you mean you tried to link another directory under content/thredds ?? If so,
> im surprissed it wont follow a symbolic link correclty....
>
> Knut Arild Lisæter wrote:
>   
>> Hi,
>>
>> I tried to update to thredds version 3.16 today, but it seems that  
>> symbolic links to catalogues are not allowed in this version? In logs/ 
>> catalogErrors.log I get many errors of this type
>>
>> initCatalog(): Path <catalogs/mersea-ip-class2-arctic.xml> points  
>> outside of content path </home/apache-tomcat-5.5.25/content/thredds/>  
>> (skip).
>>
>> Is there a quick and easy way to allow symbolic links pointing outside  
>> of the "content path" ?
>>
>>
>> Best Regards,
>> Knut Lisæter
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