Re: [jetty-users] Hot Deployment Static Files

[Andre Ben Hamou <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 16 Dec 2010, at 23:35, Michael Gorovoy wrote:

> Have you tried flushing the browser cache to ensure that your problem is not in the browser that cashes the response?

Indeed I have (and tried a raw curl just to make sure). I'm afraid that the caching is definitely on the server side.

> On Thu, Dec 16, 2010 at 10:06 AM, Andre Ben Hamou <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> Apologies for the newbie question but I've gone snowblind trying to read the (somewhat sparse ;-)) docs on the deployers, the contexts, the managers and the default servlet.
> 
> I have a simple WAR that is almost all code with a tiny index page in the root. I use an atomic rsync to push new versions of the war (as root.war) up to the webapps folder on my server. Jetty hot-deploys the classes / libs flawlessly. However, the index.html update is ignored. I assumed this was because the default servlet was caching it (and failing to flush it's cache as I would expect upon a new deploy). However, setting...
> 
>   <init-param>
>     <param-name>maxCacheSize</param-name>
>     <param-value>0</param-value>
>   </init-param>
> 
> ...in webdefault.xml (which is what the instructions say to do to disable the cache) did not alleviate my problem.
> 
> So my question, quite simply, is...
> 
> How do I get the DefaultServlet to stop serving old versions of static files at the WAR root when I do a hot deploy?
> 

Cheers,

Andre

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