[jboss-jira] [JBoss JIRA] (WFLY-4254) Symbolic links within web applications do not work

[Kris Iyer (JIRA)]

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Kris Iyer commented on WFLY-4254:
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The defects you refer to as being rejected earlier are against AS7.0, and 7.1.1 which had known issues. This is  also supported under AS 7.4 - EAP 6.3. The schema supports this as part of web metadata, but not respected by the web container. I recommend that we do not reject this based off AS7-3357 that was rejected 2 years ago, and then a fix comes up in EAP 6.1.0.Alpha (7.2.0.Final).  On a related note, supporting symbolic links is useful for exploded content and scaling deployments in the cloud, where bind mounts are not always easy to work with and automate and often times error prone.

> 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: Bartosz Baranowski
>
> 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



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