Virtual Directory-Simple question

Question

Hello!
My application needs to access a number of files in several directories. They are mear static .PDF files.But when i call them my program is written in such a way that, it points out to the physical directory, like "C:\application\repots\myreport.pdf" and the same thing will desplayed in the browser.Any one of you please help me in creating "Virtual directory" and how to map that to the physical directory where all my files exist.
Thanks for your earliest response.
-Sreekanth Varidhireddy

Answer 1

I have a servlet that generates a String as follows
reports\RPTS200208\E200208-89000001.PDF where 2002= current year
08=current month
89000001 is the code that has been submitted from a jsp page( getParameter()).
I have a Physical directory called reports in which all these sub-directories and the .PDF files inturn.
I included orion-web.xml file and i wrote it as follows.
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'windows-1252'?>
<!DOCTYPE orion-web-app PUBLIC "-//Evermind//DTD Orion Web Application 2.3//EN" "http://xmlns.oracle.com/ias/dtds/orion-web.dtd">
<orion-web-app servlet-webdir="/servlet/">
     <virtual-directory virtual-path="/reports"
          real-path="\\wdcapps01dev\Ddrive\test\isis\reports" />
</orion-web-app>
in theory it should pull that particular .PDF file..but surprisingly is not. I don't know where I am going wrong.I would be very thankful to you if you help me out of this problem. Thank you.