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Jetty buffers static content for webapps such as HTML files, CSS files, images, etc. If you are using NIO connectors, Jetty uses memory-mapped files to do this. The problem is that on Windows, memory mapping a file causes the file to lock, so that you cannot update or replace the file. Effectively this means that you have to stop Jetty to update a file.
Jetty provides a configuration switch for the DefaultServlet
that enables or disables the use of memory-mapped files.
If you are running on Windows and are having file-locking problems, you should set this switch to disable memory-mapped file buffers.
Use one of the following options to configure the switch.
An override-web.xml file can be placed in your webapp’s WEB-INF
directory to change the default setting of the DefaultServlet
for memory-mapped file buffers.
Create an override-web.xml
file with appropriate headers for your version of the servlet specification, and place the following inside the <web-app>
element:
<servlet>
<servlet-name>default</servlet-name>
<init-param>
<param-name>useFileMappedBuffer</param-name>
<param-value>false</param-value>
</init-param>
</servlet>
You can create or update a context xml file that configures your webapp to apply the setting to disable memory-mapped file buffers. Add the following to your context xml file:
<Call name="setInitParameter">
<Arg>org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.Default.useFileMappedBuffer</Arg>
<Arg>false</Arg>
</Call>
If you don’t want to use either of the other two solutions, you can configure the plugin directly to disable memory-mapped file buffers.
Add the following to the plugin’s configuration under the <webApp>
element:
<_initParams>
<org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.Default.useFileMappedBuffer>false</org.eclipse.jetty.servlet.Default.useFileMappedBuffer>
</_initParams>
You can force a WebAppContext
to always copy a web app directory on deployment.
The base directory of your web app (i.e. the root directory where your static content exists) will be copied to the temp directory.
Configure this in an xml file like so:
<New id="myWebAppContext" class="org.eclipse.jetty.webapp.WebAppContext">
<Set name="contextPath">/</Set>
<Set name="war">./webapps/fredapp</Set>
<Set name="copyWebDir">true</Set>
.
.
</New>
Note
Be careful with this option when using an explicitly settemp directory name - as the name of the temp directory will not unique across redeployments, copying the static content into the same directory name each time may not avoid the locking problem.