Symbolic links are not followed inside jboss-web.xml overlay directories in JBoss EAP 6
Issue
- We are using
<overlay>injboss-web.xmlto indicate a directory which is outside of the deployment, but symbolic links in the overlay directory are not followed and404is returned. This behaviour doesn't change even if<symbolic-linking-enabled>is enabled in thejboss-web.xml.
Environment
- Red Hat JBoss Enterprise Application Platform (EAP)
- 6.x
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