title: How do I access file in my Grails app outside web-app Folder on a Tomcat Server?
body: <p>I have a Grails application that can upload images to my server. I want to have a separate folder on my server that is not inside my web-app folder, i.e., not part of the war file.</p>
  
  <p>On my server I ran tomcat 7. </p>
  
  <ol>
  <li><p>How can I access a folder like /home/serveruser/image from my Grails application?</p></li>
  <li><p>What do I have to change in my Tomcat 7 configuration in order to get access to this folder?</p></li>
  </ol>