Well,I'm working on an Eclipse Dynamic Web Project under Tomcat.
I'm trying to make a web application/site.In a jsp/html page,there is a form where a user can upload a photo.
I handle then this action from a servlet that has to store this image/file somewhere so as to make it possible the image appears whenever I want on the site.
Here is the problem.I started by storing it on my file system,(path in a database) but when I wanted to retrieve it the page didn't appear.
I guess the reason is here:
Why can't I do <img src="C:/localfile.jpg">?
Then,I tried to store the file in the eclipse project folder(WebContent/folder) where I've stored manually some images that do appear.
File folder=new File("/TED/res/img");
File file=new File(folder,fileName);
System.out.println(file.toPath());
Files.copy(fileContent, file.toPath());
But this exception happens:
java.nio.file.NoSuchFileException: /TED/res/img/2017-08-13-123524.jpg
It's one the line of files.copy command which means that
new File(folder,fileName) that I tried failed
What should I do? From what I've read,I understood that also saving file in the IDE's project folder is also wrong but what other choice do I have?
Ultimately, the project will be deployed to a server. As such, there are three distinct issues:
Uploaded user content location: content like images should be uploaded to a folder outside your web app (project). Images inside the web app (project) should be those that are necessary for the application and provided by the developer, not user-generated.
In Eclipse, during development and testing, you will want to serve these images through Tomcat. There are many ways to do this. Tomcat configuration is probably not the best for this - please read the answer and discussion here: Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application
Once the application is deployed to the server, Tomcat will most likely run behind a Web server like Apache or Nginx. In this case, the external image folder and its contained files can be served directly by the Web server. Even if you implemented a servlet in (2) for local testing with Eclipse and this servlet is part of the code that is deployed, it will not be invoked as the URL will be intercepted by the Web server before it reaches Tomcat. For example, if your uploaded image folder is C:\images on your development environment, it can be served by the servlet using the technique in (2) as /images/*. When deployed to a server, the Web server can be configured to servet /images/* from /srv/content/images and this request will never reach Tomcat.
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I have a Spring boot/angular REST app which is using ng-upload-file to upload an image to the server. When uploading an image it gets saved in the
static/imgs folder correctly, however if I don't refresh the folder after upload the image does not appear, nor can I use its path to localize it before refreshing the folder.
Is there a way to configure the embedded Tomcat to auto refresh when a new file is added?
Thanks in Advance
EDIT:
Seems as though its an IDE problem rather than a server problem, Iam using eclipse.
Image: http://imgur.com/a/yvLoO
I tried checking "Refresh using native hooks or polling", but it has a few seconds delay.
I suggest you to read about the watcher resource feature in Tomcat.
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/context.html
WatchedResource - The auto deployer will monitor the specified static resource of the web application for updates, and will reload the web application if it is updated.
After trying to deploy the project on different servers, I decided to store the images in the db instead since the image uploading is just a temporary function.
When tomcat starts, it created one web app example which currently doesn't have test.html.
Tomcat also has my java agent which listen on specific port and get new contents.
I will receive contents of test.html in java agent. But i am unable to add this page in tomcat context so that when user access this page, he gets new page and not 404 error.
I don't want to create new file under web app folder. Is there a way to add new contents in tomcat context.
I want to do this only in dev enviornment.
You can do it with the info in the linked duplicate, but you shouldn't, at least not in production. That method is useful only for test environments.
J2EE apps were not meant to be updated dynamically, they were meant to be built and then deployed.
I have created a jsp file which will give an output in JSON format using java class and servlet, i am new to java and i don't have idea about the deployment of jsp file. Can anyone suggest me how to do it? I used to develop an asp.net web application in which there was a specific option available which called " publish project", but i cant find in eclipse.
I already have a php server in which i have uploaded few php files, can i use the same server to upload this file?
Currently, my application is running fine on localhost.
Please help me with this matter and thank you for your time.
To publish your project in Eclipse:
Right click your project
Export
Under Web > Choose WAR
Then just follow the instructions and your good to go.
It is done as a component of a WAR (Web Application Archive) file.
Upon deployment, JSP files are processed by the Servlet container. The processing effectively turns them into Servlets, such that the plain text of the JSP becomes println statements in the response of the Servlet, and the embedded Java code in the JSP becomes regular Java code in the Servlet.
The packaging details are covered in detail in the JEE7 tutorial, although earlier tutorials don't differ much in the details.
i assume you are using tomcat in your php? you can use tomcat or glassfish server to deploy your application. you just need the .war file of your application and upload it to the admin page of tomcat or glassfish server.
It should be in .war file format
Here are few links which can help you in building it from eclipse, link1, link2.
For deployment, there should be a server -- tomcat / glassfish / jboss which can provide platform to execute .war files.
IDEs and .war files are great productivity tools, but I'm of a mind that you need to understand how these things work from the command line. I'm using Apache Tomcat running on a Raspberry Pi as a development server. I developed my .jsp and then just copied to where it needed to be. In this example login.jsp needs to be in the root folder of an app called SEM. So, just copy it there and access it via its URL.
sudo cp login.jsp $CATALINA_BASE/webapps/SEM
http://localhost:8080/SEM/login.jsp
Didn't even have to restart Tomcat. :)
I have a Java EE application, running under WebLogic 10.3.5 and Java 6.
I used to have a pdf help file, embedded in my war file, but I need to extract it from there and put it in an external directory (it can be in my same WebLogic domain directory).
I tried to put it in my WebLogic domain and then to < a href > it, but it seems that browsers have limitation and for security reason will not allow to download local file with a href or javascript.
This used to work only on a static HTML file saved on my computer but one the HTML page is deployed on the server, it seems not be possible.
Any idea how I can externalize my help.pdf file from my war file?
#limc is right
you should put this static file outside of Weblogic altogether as a file on an Apache web server
However, in Weblogic there is a feature of virtual directory mapping which allows you to declare a folder outside of the weblogic domain as a content store for any static stuff.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E11035_01/wls100/webapp/weblogic_xml.html#wp1039396
This entry goes in WEB-INF/weblogic.xml
<virtual-directory-mapping>
<local-path>c:/usr/mypdfs</local-path>
<url-pattern>/pdf/*</url-pattern>
</virtual-directory-mapping>
Although some application servers allow a Java EE app to reference a file outside the web container, in reality, your web app shouldn't have any knowledge about anything outside the web container, and as you have mentioned, it is indeed a huge security concern.
Depending on what you are trying to accomplish with this PDF file, if you merely want to expose this file on the web, do what #duffmo said and it will work fine. If you want the flexibility to modify this PDF file frequently without recreating the war file again and again, you may want to consider hosting this PDF file in some HTTP web server (Apache2, IIS, etc) and now you reference that link from your web app.
You need to put it at the root of your web context, in exactly the same place as HTML pages. Your web server will be able to find it there.
I have a simple web application which lets the user upload local user data and then they can generate HTML reports from that uploaded data. Once the HTML is generated, I display a link to the report which they can click on to view in their browser or they can share the link with others.
The problem is that I am currently putting the "/Upload" folder in the "WEB-INF" folder because I don't want that folder data accessible to the outside world. I am then putting the "Reports" folder in the root directory of the web application. This work fine in that I can deploy the WAR file to the their server, the user can upload the files, and then request for HTML reports to be generated. The problem is that when I send them software updates in the WAR file it deletes everyone in the /MyWebApp directory including the /Upload and /Reports folder. So then the user has to re-upload the data and they loose any of their existing reports in the "/Reports" folder.
Now I did find an answer for the /Upload folder on StackOverflow with this discussion.
Where can I put an uploading folder so that when I deploy/undeploy the site in Tomcat that folder won't be affected
But I still don't know where to put my "/Reports" folder? I thought I would have to put it in the web application context directory as I am doing now in order for the Tomcat server to serve it up as a link (e.g.: http://example.com/MyWebApp/Reports/report01.html).
The other thing to note is that this application is running on Apache Tomcat only, I don't have the request going through an Apache server. We decided to just have it running on the users local server with Tomcat because it seems easier to deploy then trying to deploy and configure both to work together. Also, there are only 2-3 people using this application per server site and with that load Tomcat seems to be doing a great job handling everything on its own. So maybe that is making the solution more difficult?
Any hep with best practices for this would be greatly appreciated.
There should be no difference between the strategy you used for placing uploaded-files on the disk with placing reports on the disk: both are files that were generated by the webapp during its deployment (forget the fact that a client uploaded the file) and need to be protected in the same way.
If you are willing to upgrade to Tomcat 7, there is a new <Context> attribute, aliases, which will allow your webapp to serve content from that directory but not delete it when the webapp is undeployed.