Hello we use Caucho Resin which apparently died so switching to Tomcat 9 for now until we can move past Java 8.

I have it sorta working except for one thing killing me – still can’t get symlinks to work in paths, especially loading classes. I have been doing mount –bind as a workaround but now I really need to find a solution.

Here is what I have tried:

context.xml:
<Context>
  <Resources allowLinking="true" />
  <Resources cacheMaxSize="51200" />
 ...

This doesn’t make any difference. When I hit the .jsp file I get no errors in the log only the failure to compile because a variable “cannot be resolved to a type”. So the class was just silently ignored.

If I delete the symlink and replace with a mount –bind, it works as expected and the JSP is executed.

Every single Google search always takes me back to “allowlinking=true”, and I follow the solutions but it doesn’t work for me.