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<div class="jive-rendered-content"><p>Ok, doing some more digging I found this article discussing External Directories which seems to be the alternative for JBoss 5.1.0.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><a class="" href="http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ExternalDirectories">http://community.jboss.org/wiki/ExternalDirectories</a></p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p>Problem is, when I add this to the profile.xml file, I still cannot access the generated file using a URL.</p><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><pre class="jive-pre"><code class="jive-code jive-xml">
<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;property name="bootstrapURI"&gt;</span>${jboss.server.home.url}conf/jboss-service.xml<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;property name="deployersURI"&gt;</span>${jboss.server.home.url}deployers<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/property&gt;</span>
<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;property name="applicationURIs"&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;list elementClass="java.net.URI"&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;value&gt;</span>${jboss.server.home.url}deploy<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/value&gt;</span>

&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-comment">&lt;!-- External Directories --&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;value&gt;</span>${jboss.server.home.url}virtualDirectory/reporting/output<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
&#160;&#160;&#160;&#160; <span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;value&gt;</span>${jboss.server.home.url}virtualDirectory/app/output<span class="jive-xml-tag">&lt;/value&gt;</span>
</code></pre><p style="min-height: 8pt; height: 8pt; padding: 0px;">&#160;</p><p><span style="white-space: pre; font-family: monospace; ">I still get a HTTP 404.&#160; I can see the file is being created in the directory specified but I can't seem to access it via URL.</span></p></div>

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