尝试通过URL访问tomcat中的xml文件，出现404错误

Question

I have a webapp deployed in Tomee+ 1.6.0 (tomcat 7.0). The app runs fine and I can access all pages. Within one of my app's folders (myapp/intructions/) I have placed a xml file that I will access via a client application.

The application will access the file for its configuration, and will be called via a batch file with the following command:

"C:\Java\jre7\bin\java" -cp MyApp.jar com.me.MyApplicationStart "argument1" "argument2"

Within MyApplicationStart the constructor tries to access the configuration from the URL

http://webserver:8080/myapp/instruction/myconfig.xml

As I have no control over the above methodology, this cannot be changed.

I would expect the xml to be downloaded (or fetched) and my application to work fine, but instead I get a 404 error. If I change the extension of my config file to .properties, everything works fine, but someone else other than me in the team insists that we use xml for the config file, since it will allow more automation features.

What gets me is why can't I access this xml (or any other) file from tomcat. It seems that in previous versions of tomcat this was not a problem, or at least not with files outside the WEB-INF folder. Now it is and it seems to be exclusive to xml files, which suggests that there's a configuration in place that prevents access to this extension from anywhere in the webapp.

Would anybody know what this configuration is, or what is the mechanics behind this error?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

for security reason, WEB-INF folder is not accessible from client side.

put your xml file in other location.

and try again, It will work