Tomcat 5.5 Virtual Directory

Lots of people stumbled here from Google looking for how to create virtual directory in Tomcat 5.5. Since I've deleted the post, I'll write it here:

Suppose you want to create a virtual directory named resource that’s mapped to a folder outside web application folder, e.g. to E:\Internet-Server\tomcat\resources. Virtual Directory on Tomcat 5.5 can be implemented by following these steps:

• Open [Tomcat_Installation_Directory]\conf\Catalina\localhost (this can be different with yourse, depend on how you configure your server)


• Create an XML file named resources.xml with the following content:
  <Context path=”/resources” docBase=”E:/Internet-Server/tomcat/resources” debug=”0″ privileged=”true”>
  </Context>

Restart Tomcat, and you’re done.