Loading application files outside CF app root (CF+JBoss)

I need some help with this as well.

I think that it is a CF configuration issue and has nothing to do with JBoss.

My presumptions:

1.  On a linux box, I "should" be able to make a symlink in the cfusion.war directory that points to a external directory that contains .cfm files.

2.  CF has a "Server Settings -> Mappings" page that I think "should" allow this to work.

So far, I can't get either of these 2 techniques to work.

My particular intallation is on RHEL5, using JBoss 5 and CF9.

I installed CF9 as an EAR in the JBoss deploy directory.

For me, that is:  /opt/JBoss/server/default/deploy/cfusion.ear

If I put a "test.cfm" file in /opt/JBoss/server/default/deploy/cfusion.ear/cfusion.war/rick/test.cfm, it works fine.

But, I need to place the .cfm files on a shared drive that is outside the cfusion.war directory structure.

I expected that a symbolic link in the cfusion.war directory that pointed to my shared directory would work, but it does not.

For example if I replace the "rick" directory with a symlink that points to /cfmfiles, I would expect that to work.

OR, if that doesn't work then I would expect that I could create a mapping from the CF Administrator that points logical path "/rick" to "/cfmfiles" directory path.  That does not work either.

So, is there any way to configure CF9 on JBoss that allows me to put the .cfm files somewhere other than the cfusion.ear/cfusion.war directory?

Thanks,

Rick