Load html , js, css files from file system and outside the sever

Question

I want to load html , js, css files from file system while running tomcat 7. Tried the following approach, and none of it works.
1) put

<Context docBase="D:\temp\uploads\myfile" path="/MySharedHTML"/>

under conf/server.xml

2) created folder conf\Catalina\localhost and put ROOT.xml under it with following content

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?>
<Context docBase="D:\temp\uploads\myfile" path="/MySharedHTML"/>

when i tried to test my code with the following jsp file with tomcat running, nothing showed up

<%@ taglib uri="http://java.sun.com/jsp/jstl/core" prefix="c" %>
<html>
<head>
<title>Tag Example</title>
</head>
<body>da
<c:import url="/MySharedHTML/extraweb.html"/>
</body>
</html>

Please help!

Thank you

I have update my code by using controller to load html file and it works, but the related js, css and image does not load.

Please give some suggestions, and the code is shown below

@RequestMapping(value = { "/photo" }, method = RequestMethod.GET)
public void uploadPhoto(HttpServletRequest request, HttpServletResponse response)
        throws ServletException, IOException {
    String name = request.getParameter("name");
    // String filename =
    // URLDecoder.decode(request.getPathInfo().substring(1), "UTF-8");
    String filename = "tour.html";
    File file = new File("D:/temp/uploads/myfile", filename);
    response.setHeader("Content-Type", servletContext.getMimeType(filename));
    response.setHeader("Content-Length", String.valueOf(file.length()));
    response.setHeader("Content-Disposition", "inline; filename=\"" + file.getName() + "\"");
    Files.copy(file.toPath(), response.getOutputStream());
}

sever.xml in tomcat

    <Host name="localhost"  appBase="webapps"
        unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true">

    <!-- SingleSignOn valve, share authentication between web applications
         Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html -->
    <!--
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.authenticator.SingleSignOn" />
    -->

    <!-- Access log processes all example.
         Documentation at: /docs/config/valve.html
         Note: The pattern used is equivalent to using pattern="common" -->
    <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve" directory="logs"
           prefix="localhost_access_log." suffix=".txt"
           pattern="%h %l %u %t &quot;%r&quot; %s %b" />
           <Context docBase="D:\temp\uploads\vtour" path="/MySharedHTML"/>

  </Host>

[Simplest way to serve static data from outside the application server in a Java web application](http://stackoverflow.com/a/1812356/4290096) ? — Arun Xavier, Mar 01 '16 at 04:17
@JAVY i tried to as I mention, it does not work, and I already read the post you referred — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 04:28
tried with the FileServlet as mentioned in the answer ? or just this xml tag in server.xml ? — Arun Xavier, Mar 01 '16 at 04:30
@JAVY just xml tag in server.xml, since i want to keep it simple first — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 04:33
@JAVY I tried servlet and it load html well, but how to load the related js, css and images , :( , any suggestions? — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 04:44
may be you should add your code, so that everyone can see and help you :). — Arun Xavier, Mar 01 '16 at 04:45
You are using `filename = "tour.html";` for outputstream , is that an issue or just used here as an example ? `String name` is not used anywhere ! — Arun Xavier, Mar 01 '16 at 05:00
@JAVY it is just example , and tour.html contains many js, css and images. those file can not be loaded. any suggestions? — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 05:03
@JAVY the reason to use such approach is because those files are generated in the file system while application running. — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 05:19
OK ,I tried this - `http://localhost:8084/MySharedHTML/test.js` even works without Servlet, let me try with a Servlet. — Arun Xavier, Mar 01 '16 at 05:20
@JAVY for http://localhost:8084/MySharedHTML/test.js, did you put — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 05:22
@JAVY I tried the same set up, and does not work at all. is the sever.xml located in conf in tomcat? which version of tomcat are you using? — xibrian, Mar 01 '16 at 05:35

Load html , js, css files from file system and outside the sever

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