# Ignition 8.0.14 - windows symbolic link for Ignition webserver?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2020, 2:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ignition-8-0-14-windows-symbolic-link-for-ignition-webserver/36369 "2020-07-05T14:21:38Z")\
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**Ignition 8.0.14 - Windows Server 2016.**

I use Ignition webserver for a tiles server.

All is fine but I would like to use **windows symbolic link** in order to store tiles in another directory outside Ignition webserver’s directory.

I’ve created the junction with:

```auto
mklink /J "C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\webserver\webapps\main\tiles" "D:\tiles"

```

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/a/1a3e3b498afe284001a1f66a10ebff1f5b2796de.png)

In

```auto
C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\webserver\webdefault.xml

```

and

```auto
C:\Program Files\Inductive Automation\Ignition\webserver\webapps\main\WEB-INF\web.xml

```

I set aliases parameter to **true**  
[https://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/How\_to\_serve\_symbolically\_linked\_files](https://wiki.eclipse.org/Jetty/Howto/How_to_serve_symbolically_linked_files)

```auto
    <init-param>
      <param-name>aliases</param-name>
      <param-value>true</param-value>
    </init-param>

```

I restart Ignition gateway, but my files are not accessible with Ignition webserver.

Any Idea ???