Opening JSP pages from within Alfresco

[simon]

Alfresco,

I would like to store a JSP file in Alfresco, no problems here but there is no content type to support this. I tried plain text, octet stream, HTML, etc. but they all open the file without parsing the JSP.

Tomcat is a JSP engine so it should be possible to parse this, isn't it?

I just want to store a file in Alfresco and provide a direct link to this file. If the user is logged in, the file is parsed and shown to the user.

Can I do this?

[gavinc]

Hi Simon,

As far as I know this is not possible. The behaviour you are seeing is what I would expect. The appserver will only parse and execute JSP pages that live within the web application's folder structure. Other non-executable content i.e. images, CSS, JavaScript etc. should work fine, however.

If anyone knows differently let us know.

[simon]

Thanks Gavin. This may be something to take into account with the upcoming WCM? I needed this for some JSP forwarding script but I'll use the ugly HTML redirection meta tag instead.