Serve files from folder outside web application in Jetty

Question

I have a Java web application (Eclipse/OSGI) on a Jetty server. I want to be able to serve static files to my web application from a folder outside of the web root. In my web ap

Answer 1

@Farna: In your answer I am not able to understand how you are passing the file name as VM parameter. This is what I did.

I created testparvez.xml file in jetty webapps directory.

    



  /testparvez
  
  
    
      
        
          
        
      
      max-age=3600,public
    
  

Then I start jetty as

java -jar start.jar jetty.port=8082 -Dmydir=C:/test/javadoc/ -Dmyfile=index.html

And finally I access from url http://localhost:8082/testparvez/