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What if you need someplace to store static files for web consumption. Things that might come to mind:

  • Images
  • HTML Static Title Pages
  • JavaScript
  • PDF Documentation (such as how-to instructions)

An ideal place would be a HTML server, since these aren't active files. However in a standard 9.2 installation, there is no longer an included Apache server.

But don't fret, you don't have to go out and download something. You can utilize the existing jBoss installation to upload and view files.

Simply place files in the location:

server\SASServer1\deploy\jboss-web.deployer\ROOT.war

(I would recommend setting up an organized file folder structure within the ROOT.war folder.)

You can then access files within http://server:port/.

(If you are unable to view the contents of ROOT.war, you will need to extract the .ear file. See the previous post for tips: https://blogs.sas.com/content/bi/2009/09/11/jboss-performance-improvement/)

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Angela Hall

Senior Technical Architect

Angela offers tips on using the SAS Business Intelligence solutions. She manages a team of SAS Fraud Framework implementers within the SAS Solutions On-Demand organization. Angela also has co-written two books, 'Building BI using SAS, Content Development Examples' & 'The 50 Keys to Learning SAS Stored Processes'.

6 Comments

  2. Daniel Ionescu on

    Dear Angela,
    can you tell me please, how many simultaneously connections supports this workaround?

  3. James Walker on

    does this work in 9.3 as well? In 9.2 we put our static html files etc in the Root.war folder and it works fine, but with 9.3 i can't get it to work?

    • Angela Hall
      Angela Hall on

      It should work in the same folder location for 9.3.
      When I was troubleshooting this on my machine I noticed that I had to clear out the work and tmp folders (found in the root jboss-4.2.3.GAserverSASServer1).
      So this might be a caching issue that you are seeing.

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