[jetty-users] Hot Deployment Static Files

[Andre Ben Hamou <andre@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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