Will tomcat allow me to configur access to a single folder?

[JoshInWV]

Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a single
directory?  I am looking at writing a bit of code to be able to upload spare
files to a section on the webserver, and then be able to view them and d/l
them.  Writing the code for the upload is not hard, but just wondering since
I have a .com, if I had say domain.com/external site dump/  Can I configure
tomcat so that everytime someone went to the /external site dump section, it
would ask for credentials?  Is this just a simple realm configuration?

Thanks.

- Josh

[markt-2]

Josh Gooding wrote:
> Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a single
> directory?  I am looking at writing a bit of code to be able to upload spare
> files to a section on the webserver, and then be able to view them and d/l
> them.  Writing the code for the upload is not hard, but just wondering since
> I have a .com, if I had say domain.com/external site dump/  Can I configure
> tomcat so that everytime someone went to the /external site dump section, it
> would ask for credentials?  Is this just a simple realm configuration?

Yep. Create it as a separate context and add a realm.

Mark


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[Caldarale, Charles R]

> From: Josh Gooding [mailto:josh.gooding@...]
> Subject: Will tomcat allow me to configur access to a single folder?
>
> Can I configure tomcat so that everytime someone went to the
> /external site dump section, it would ask for credentials?

Read section 12 of the servlet spec for a description of how to configure security.  In particular, you will need a WEB-INF/web.xml file containing a <security-constraint> section with a <url-pattern> of / (which indicates all URLs are covered; you will not need any <servlet> or <servlet-mapping> declarations, since they're covered by Tomcat's default web.xml.  Look at the WEB-INF/web.xml of Tomcat's manager or host-manager app for examples.  You will need a <Realm> declaration for the webapp to provide the authentication mechanism.

 - Chuck


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[awarnier]

Josh Gooding wrote:
> Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a single
> directory?
Huh ?

Which Apache http documentation have you been reading ?
Not this one :
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html



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[JoshInWV]

What I was saying is that in httpd, you can configure httpd to do what I
want, but I was unsure if you could in tomcat.  Since I'm not using httpd, I
just wanted to see if I can configure access to a specific folder in
Tomcat.  I am setting up a backup site for a group of people on my domain.
That's all.



On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 4:03 AM, André Warnier <aw@...> wrote:

> Josh Gooding wrote:
>
>> Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a single
>> directory?
>>
> Huh ?
>
> Which Apache http documentation have you been reading ?
> Not this one :
> http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/howto/auth.html
>
>
>
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[awarnier]

Josh Gooding wrote:

> What I was saying is that in httpd, you can configure httpd to do what I
> want, but I was unsure if you could in tomcat.  Since I'm not using httpd, I
> just wanted to see if I can configure access to a specific folder in
> Tomcat.  I am setting up a backup site for a group of people on my domain.
> That's all.
>
>> Josh Gooding wrote:
>>
>>> Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a single
>>> directory?
>>>

So, you really meant :
Q: Can Tomcat, like httpd, be configured to allow access to a single
directory ?
A: yes.
:-)

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[JoshInWV]

Basically this is a dump for back up files, that's all.  I have a website at
the .com level, would I have to put in another entry in the server.xml for
this and then populate the (dump) directory with the WEB-INF / META-INF
resources?  I think I can configure the login with a file instead of having
to have a JDBC connection to a database.

On Mon, Nov 2, 2009 at 10:51 AM, André Warnier <aw@...> wrote:

> Josh Gooding wrote:
>
>> What I was saying is that in httpd, you can configure httpd to do what I
>> want, but I was unsure if you could in tomcat.  Since I'm not using httpd,
>> I
>> just wanted to see if I can configure access to a specific folder in
>> Tomcat.  I am setting up a backup site for a group of people on my domain.
>> That's all.
>>
>>  Josh Gooding wrote:
>>>
>>>  Unlike Apache HTTPD, can Tomcat be configured to allow access to a
>>>> single
>>>> directory?
>>>>
>>>>  So, you really meant :
> Q: Can Tomcat, like httpd, be configured to allow access to a single
> directory ?
> A: yes.
> :-)
>
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