Can I change the upload temp directory on Windows?

JP

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Oct 12, 2015, 1:54:31 PM10/12/15

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I've got a Railo app that allows users to upload very large files. I just noticed that my system drive is full because Railo is using C:\railo\tomcat\temp to store temporary upload files. The files are named "temporary-stream-<number>" and there are a lot of them. There's also an empty file named safeToDelete.tmp, which I assume means that all the files are safe to delete.

Is there a way to change the location of this folder?

Andrew Dixon

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Oct 12, 2015, 4:29:21 PM10/12/15

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Hi,

If you look in the catalina.bat file (in the [RAILO_BASE_DIR]/bin/) you will find a variable called CATALINA_TMPDIR and this is used to set this directory at startup, something like:

if not "%CATALINA_TMPDIR%" == "" goto gotTmpdir
set "CATALINA_TMPDIR=%CATALINA_BASE%\temp"

If you want to change it hard code a value for CATALINA_TMPDIR above this line, e.g.

CATALINA_TMPDIR="D:\my_new_temp_folder"

and that should fix it for you.

FYI, Railo is now basically a dead project, head on over to Lucee (http://lucee.org) for the latest updates, including some security patches.

Kind regards,

Andrew

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On 12 October 2015 at 18:54, JP <jo...@redtopia.com> wrote:

I've got a Railo app that allows users to upload very large files. I just noticed that my system drive is full because Railo is using C:\railo\tomcat\temp to store temporary upload files. The files are named "temporary-stream-<number>" and there are a lot of them. There's also an empty file named safeToDelete.tmp, which I assume means that all the files are safe to delete.

Is there a way to change the location of this folder?

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JP

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Oct 12, 2015, 10:39:14 PM10/12/15

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I found a better way to do it... open up the Railo-Tomcat Server Settings program, go to the Java tab, and change the temp directory.