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

[Thomas LOUBRIEU]

Hi Knut and John,

We are upgrading our server to 3.16 as well and we use a symbolic link 
from content/thredds pointing on a directory somewhere else.
I didn't see any problem (yet ?).

Thomas



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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