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    <p>I am creating an application which produces some files/directories in my WebContent folder and I would like Tomcat to serve these static files (logs of some background jobs). </p> <p>However Tomcat does not seem to recognize new files (maybe files in new folders), and it keeps returning 404 for them. After Tomcat restart, the files are served Ok.</p> <p>I am using Tomcat 7.0, form within the Eclipse. The files are served by the default servlet.</p> <p>I assume that Tomcat somehow traverses WebContent initially and it just uses this cached list of files for faster operation. Is there a way to disable such a behavior (or maybe: what is the right way to serve new files generated by other processes)?</p> <p>Thanks for help/suggestions. I am quite newbie to Tomcat, so I might be overlooking something basic.</p> <p><strong>Update (based on accepted solution)</strong></p> <p>There seems to be some duality in the webapp folder. One is in the Eclipse project (and is returned by <code>getServletContext().getRealPath</code>, the other is by default somewhere in Eclipse metadata and can be seen in launch config in <code>wtp.deploy</code> property. The files are somehow copied from Eclipse to the deploy dir. When I started to generate my files under <code>wtp.deploy</code>, the problem got fixed.</p> <p>However, I still don't know, how to solve this in proper way, which will work both under Eclipse WTP and in normal Tomcat conditions.</p> <p><strong>Update</strong></p> <p>The final solution was to avoid <code>DefaultServlet</code> at all. I used <code>FileServlet</code> based on <a href="http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/02/fileservlet-supporting-resume-and.html" rel="nofollow">http://balusc.blogspot.com/2009/02/fileservlet-supporting-resume-and.html</a> and it works fine.</p>
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