Symbolic links within web applications do not work -------------------------------------------------- Key: WFLY-4254 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/WFLY-4254 Project: WildFly Issue Type: Feature Request Components: Web (Undertow) Affects Versions: 8.2.0.Final Reporter: Kris Iyer Assignee: Stuart Douglas Fix For: 9.0.0.Beta1 Symbolic Linking under exploded web-apps to files and/or directories outside the web-app do not work. Here is what I tried under an exploded war: <jboss-web xmlns="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.jboss.com/xml/ns/javaee http://www.jboss.org/j2ee/schema/jboss-web_8_0.xsd" version="8.0"> <symbolic-linking-enabled>true</symbolic-linking-enabled> </jboss-web> Does not follow links and results in a 404. HTTP/?.? 404 Not Found Connection: keep-alive X-Powered-By: Undertow/1 Server: WildFly/8