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

[Knut Arild Lisæter]

Hi Thomas,

strange.. Maybe it is related to the setup of the tomcat server? I  
recall  a flag  named "allowLinking" which can be set for tomcat hosts  
and contexts


--Knut


On Jan 31, 2008, at 10:14 AM, Thomas LOUBRIEU wrote:

> 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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