Alternate/Additional Docroots in GlassFish V2

On window, just type in one line: asadmin set server.http-service.virtual-server.server.property.alternatedocroot_1=”from=/user_document/* dir=c:\ ”
(put a space after the last back-slash, otherwise you will get syntax error)

If you are more familiar with the admin console, you can do this by going to the virtual server page.
Select tree node: Configuration -> HTTP-Service -> Virtual Server -> server
on the right panel, add a row to the property table,
property name: alternatedocroot_1
property value: from=/user_documents/* dir=c:\

You can then access your test.pdf which is put under /user_documents

Click to access test.pdf

1. Keep this in mind that if you have your dir listing disable, you are not able to access dir listing without sending a file name. http://localhost:8080/user_documents (You will get a 404)

2. Make sure there are no context name in the url like this http://localhost:8080/ajw_141/user_documents/test.txt

Full Thread: http://forums.java.net/jive/thread.jspa?messageID=253560
Jan Lueh’s Blog: http://blogs.sun.com/jluehe/entry/alternate_docroots_in_web_applications

——————————————-Episode 2 ———– 01/29/08————————————–

Here how it install in our Sun Solaris:
Glassfish docroot from: /app01/SUNappserver/domains/domain1/docroot
Static content docroot: web/docs

Above example works great in Solaris as well.
property name: alternatedocroot_1
property value: from=/user_documents/* dir=/web/docs


But when I set up my root application to the alternatedocroot, I could not access any of /web/docs directories like user_documents, fileUpload etc. http://atowus2:41877/user_documents/test.txt –> It wont work.

The reason I could not access my /user_documents/test.txt is because, I set up my application root c ontext (/) to glassfish docroot, although I added additional property (alternatedocroot_1), it still kept looking at the glassfish original docroot instead of alternate docroot.

I had couple conditions that I was trying to work with so everything would work seamless like it had been.

1. I wanted to access my homepage page like http://atowus2:41877/ instead of http://atowus2:41877/root

2. I wanted to access my static contents like this: http://atowus2:41877/user_documents/test.pdf

Work around: I kept my root application contents (body, images, WEB-INF, index.jsp etc) under web/docs with other directories, like user_documents, uploadFiles, cm etc.

So instead of previous example, I did the following steps and it seems to be working.

So far, I have resolved these following issues:

1. template path
2. root application path, like http://atowus2:41877/
3. static content path so user should be able to access like this; http://atowus2:41877/user_documents/test.pdf