Changeset 10906

Timestamp:

2005-11-16T12:44:27+13:00 (18 years ago)

Author:

kjdon

Message:

added a note about symlinks in Tomcat

File:

• trunk/gsdl3/README.txt (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/gsdl3/README.txt

@@ -242 +242 @@
 To prevent Tomcat showing directory listings, edit conf/web.xml file in the Tomcat directory and set the value of the "listings" servlet parameter to false.
 
+To enable symlinks to files outside the webapp root directory, edit conf/server.xml file in the Tomcat directory, and set the allowLinking attribute in the Greenstone 3 Context element to true.
+(Note from Tomcat website: This flag MUST NOT be set to true on the Windows platform (or any other OS which does not have a case sensitive filesystem), as it will disable case sensitivity checks, allowing JSP source code disclosure, among other security problems.)
+
 The file web/WEB-INF/classes/global.properties is generated on install and contains some properties for the run time system.