Re: [Geoserver-users] Problem with symlinks

2024-03-18 Thread Uwe Seher
Hello again! at first thank you for your help and i will check your hint step by step. To explain why: We used a symlink because we have a lot of image data that exceeds the space of the server hardware. So i used nfs and symlinks as the easiest way to handle this and at the end it is a historical

Re: [Geoserver-users] Problem with symlinks

2024-03-15 Thread Carsten Klein
Hi, on the other hand, if Tomcat/Java states that your data dir is just not writable, this could be due to a missing ReadWritePaths option in Tomcat's systemd service file. For security reasons, systemd services must explicitly list those directories they need write access to. In that case yo

Re: [Geoserver-users] Problem with symlinks

2024-03-15 Thread Carsten Klein
Hi Uwe, hi Andrea, what is GeoServer's GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR in web.xml set to? Why using a symlink? Can't you just let GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR point to the actual data dir on your host machine? Maybe Tomcat is picky about the symlink. If you cannot adjust your GEOSERVER_DATA_DIR, using a bind mount i

Re: [Geoserver-users] Problem with symlinks

2024-03-15 Thread Andrea Aime
I don't have experience using symlinks for the data dir... what errors do you get? I guess you'll get some stack traces in the logs, can you share them? Regards, Andrea Aime == GeoServer Professional Services from the experts! Visit http://bit.ly/gs-services-us for more information. == Ing. A

Re: [Geoserver-users] Problem with symlinks

2024-03-15 Thread Uwe Seher
Same Problem on openSUSE15.5, no symlinks accepted. Am Mo., 11. März 2024 um 15:32 Uhr schrieb Uwe Seher : > Hi! > I am trying u migrate our geoserver installation from 2.19.x to 2.24.1 and > from aur old server to a new one running on debian 11/java 11. This part is > ok, the new instance is up