Tomcat 8: Allow Symlinks and Disable Jar Scanning

context.xml.diff

--- context.xml.20151105_160437.bak     2015-07-08 14:56:35.000000000 -0500
+++ context.xml 2015-11-05 17:59:41.063050250 -0600
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 -->
 <!-- The contents of this file will be loaded for each web application -->
 <Context useHttpOnly="true">
+    <Resources allowLinking="true" />

     <!-- Default set of monitored resources. If one of these changes, the    -->
     <!-- web application will be reloaded.                                   -->
@@ -24,13 +25,13 @@
     <WatchedResource>${catalina.base}/conf/web.xml</WatchedResource>

     <!-- Uncomment this to disable session persistence across Tomcat restarts -->
-    <!--
     <Manager pathname="" />
-    -->

     <!-- Uncomment this to enable Comet connection tacking (provides events
          on session expiration as well as webapp lifecycle) -->
     <!--
     <Valve className="org.apache.catalina.valves.CometConnectionManagerValve" />
     -->
+
+    <JarScanner scanClassPath="false" />
 </Context>