Symbolic links on Solaris 9 OS/Sun AS 8.01

Question

Hello, we are migrating several applications from SunAS 7 to SunAS8 and have several document directories that were set up on SunAS7. These appear to not be available in SunAS8. A symbolic link would work fine. We have attempted to implement the fix suggested in closed bugs #5015444, 6171573, and 6155565 which say to add the following to domain.xml and/or sun-web.xml:
<property name="allowLinking" value="true"/>
We have added this property and are still getting a 404 browser error. IS this correct or are we missing something? Or, are there any otherways to make content available to the application that is outside of the main war/ear file?
Thanks in advance,
Dave K.

Answer 1

Yes, that's the stats of things in the AS 8.01 and AS 8.1 BETA releases.
For the upcoming AS 8.1 FCS release, we have added a property named "allowLinking" to the <virtual-server> element in domain.xml, with the following meaning:
- Determines whether symbolic links outside the virtual server's
docroot are to be followed.
- Is inherited by all web apps deployed in this virtual server.
Notice that a webapp may override the inherited value by
specifying its own "allowLinking" property in its sun-web.xml,
like this:
<sun-web-app>
<property name="allowLinking" value="true" />
</sun-web-app>
Also in the upcoming AS 8.1 FCS, we've changed the default value of the virtual-server's "allowLinking" property to TRUE.
Hope this helps.
Jan