Default directory for file-upload in web.xml

Question

Hi,
Does any one know how to specify a relative path for the temporary directory in the web.xml file.
In the web.xml file under the jato_MultipartFormFilter filter I tried to change the name of the directory so that it reflects a relative path but it did not work. The deployment process gives the following exception:
Failure creating test file in directory "tmpDir"; disabling temp file for uploads
java.io.IOException: No such file or directory
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
When I tried to keep the default setting, i.e. keeping the tag empty. The server gives a permission denied since I am not accessing as the root user as shown next:
Root cause:
java.io.IOException: Permission denied
at java.io.UnixFileSystem.createFileExclusively(Native Method)
at java.io.File.checkAndCreate(File.java:1314)
at java.io.File.createTempFile(File.java:1402)
The only thing I can do is specifying an absulte path from the root directoy '/' in my machine, not the root directory of the application.
<init-param>
     <param-name>tempFileDirectory</param-name>
     <param-value>/home/Basil/myTemp</param-value>
</init-param>
Any help is greatly appreciated,
Regards,
Basil mahdi

Answer 1

Todd and I discussed this last night. We did not seem to have included support for automatic detection of a relative path entry. We have issued an RFE for this. There is little that we can do if the file location cannot be opened due to permission problem. If the java.io.File temp file feature does not work for your web application then I suspect this is an issue in the application server; perhaps a misconfiguration or security policy issue. If you would like to indicate a path relative to context root then we have a workaround for you. Please use the call <ServletContext>.getRealPath("/"); and then append you relative path. This is essentially what we will end up doing when we implement the RFE. regards -matt-