Tomcat: accessing the static Resources from outside of WEBROOT directory or from local disk

Step 1 :
Create a folder under webapps of tomcat server., let us say the folder name is myproj

Step 2 :
Under myproj create a WEB-INF folder under this create a simple web.xml

code under web.xml

<web-app>
</web-app>

Directory Structure for the above two steps

c:\programfile\apachesoftwarefoundation\tomcat\...\webapps
                                                            |
                                                            |---myproj
                                                            |   |
                                                            |   |---WEB-INF
                                                                |   |
                                                                    |---web.xml

Step 3:
Now create a xml file with name myproj.xml under the following location

c:\programfile\apachesoftwarefoundation\tomcat\conf\catalina\localhost

CODE in myproj.xml:

<Context path="/myproj/images" docBase="e:/myproj/" crossContext="false" debug="0" reloadable="true" privileged="true" />

Step 4:
4 A) Now create a folder with name myproj in E drive of your hard disk and create a new

folder with name images and place some images in images folder (e:myproj\images\)

Let us suppose myfoto.jpg is placed under e:\myproj\images\myfoto.jpg

4 B) Now create a folder with name WEB-INF in e:\myproj\WEB-INF and create a web.xml in WEB-INF folder

Code in web.xml

<web-app>
</web-app>

Step 5:
Now create a .html document with name index.html and place under e:\myproj

CODE under index.html Welcome to Myproj

The Directory Structure for the above Step 4 and Step 5 is as follows 

E:\myproj
    |--index.html
    |
    |--images
    |     |----myfoto.jpg
    |
    |--WEB-INF
    |     |--web.xml

Step 6:
Now start the apache tomcat server

Step 7:
open the browser and type the url as follows

http://localhost:8080/myproj

then u display the content which is provided in index.html

Step 8:
To Access the Images under your local hard disk (outside of webroot)

http://localhost:8080/myproj/images/myfoto.jpg


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