[Laszlo-user] laszlo app behind a symlink

[Vincent de Phily]

Hi,

I'm have set up the "my-apps" folder to be a symlink to the real folder (for 
various reasons, including easily testing my code on various versions of 
laszlo).

This works fine for *.lzx files but not for anything else. I can't load any 
xml, jpg, or whatever (wether loading from laszlo or directly from the 
browser). Same file location and permissions. It works if I copy the files 
directly in there, with no symlink in the way.

Somebody else opened a bug about it but got no usefull reply :
http://www.openlaszlo.org/jira/browse/LPP-4031



I'm using tomcat 6.0.13, and laszlo 4 (SOLO mode, "dev kit" war file).

I tried setting up the "allowLinking" attribute mentioned in various places 
(either in the global context.xml, web.xml, or the laszlo web.xml). I tried 
re-declaring and re-mapping the "default" servlet in laszlo's web.xml. I 
tried assigning the issue to my sysadmin colleagues. Nothing worked.

I actually found a workaround, but it is ugly and linux-specific (no 
relationship between these two attributes :p) : instead of using symlinks, 
I "mount --bind" the folders. This will do for a little while, but I can't 
use it on the final system.


So... Any ideas ?
Thanks.
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Vincent de Phily