Re: Tomcat 4.0/Solaris why doesn't tomcat follow soft links?
Craig, Thanks! I missed that in the docs when I first went through them. I found the documentation on this feature, and now am wondering how much you know about it. On the system I am forced to configure this on, the users accounts are mounted from a central nfs server. This means that they do not have entries in the /etc/passwd file, which I gather from the documentation is used to generate the default Contexts. It appears there is a homeBase option which allows you to specify the location of a series of home directories. Do you know if I can use /home, as the students directories are automounted there? Or do the home directories have to be hardmounted? I'm experimenting with this option on a test server I have, and haven't gotten it to work with a test case yet...If I get something working I'll let you know. A very appreciative, Bob Evans At 10:56 AM 6/14/2001 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Robert Evans wrote: Greetings, I am in the process of configuring Tomcat to be used with several classes at the Johns Hopkins University. I would like to have each student have their own webapp in their public_html directory. I tried Tomcat 3.2.1, but couldn't get the security policy to work right (all jsp pages kept wanting to use the examples directory?) I am trying Tomcat 4.0B5, and was going to use soft links in the webapps directory to point to each students public_html directory. The only problem is that Tomcat doesn't seem to want to follow the soft links. If I make a real directory in the webapps dir, everything works fine, but if I try to use a soft linked one, I get: Http Status 503 - This application is not currently available The requested service(This application is not currently available) is not currently available Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated. If I don't get this working within a week, it'll be back to the Java Web Server. :-( Bob Not following symlinks is an unfortunate side effect of the processing that Tomcat has to do to avoid directory name spoofing (/WeB-iNf) on case insensitive platforms). :-( For Tomcat 4, have you tried using the user home directories option, to automatically recognize each student's public_html directory? This will save you having to configure them all into server.xml: Host name=localhost ... ... Listener className=org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig directoryName=public_html userClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase/ ... /Host Craig McClanahan
Re: Tomcat 4.0/Solaris server.xml file and public_html option
Craig, I figured I'd follow up on my last question with one more, since I noticed that the in the documentation there is a sample bit of code that says http://www.mycompany.com:8080/~craigmcc, which I am assuming is you...indicating you may indeed know quite a bit about this particular feature. Unfortunately, I have been unable to get anything to work yet, even on my test server. In my server.xml file under the Host name=localhost ... section, I have: !-- Automatically map a request path starting with a tilde character(~) and a username to a directory. In this case to ~username/public.html -- Listener className=org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig directoryName=public_html homeBase=/export/home userClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase/ I tried this with and without the homeBase option above. I am using my own account as a test. The entry in the /etc/passwd file is as follows: rbevans:x:5756:20:Robert Evans:/home/rbevans:/bin/csh The account is automounted from /export/home/rbevans. I tried the /export/home and /home options to homeBase, neither worked. Any comments, hints or suggestions? Bob At 10:56 AM 6/14/2001 -0700, you wrote: On Thu, 14 Jun 2001, Robert Evans wrote: Greetings, I am in the process of configuring Tomcat to be used with several classes at the Johns Hopkins University. I would like to have each student have their own webapp in their public_html directory. I tried Tomcat 3.2.1, but couldn't get the security policy to work right (all jsp pages kept wanting to use the examples directory?) I am trying Tomcat 4.0B5, and was going to use soft links in the webapps directory to point to each students public_html directory. The only problem is that Tomcat doesn't seem to want to follow the soft links. If I make a real directory in the webapps dir, everything works fine, but if I try to use a soft linked one, I get: Http Status 503 - This application is not currently available The requested service(This application is not currently available) is not currently available Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated. If I don't get this working within a week, it'll be back to the Java Web Server. :-( Bob Not following symlinks is an unfortunate side effect of the processing that Tomcat has to do to avoid directory name spoofing (/WeB-iNf) on case insensitive platforms). :-( For Tomcat 4, have you tried using the user home directories option, to automatically recognize each student's public_html directory? This will save you having to configure them all into server.xml: Host name=localhost ... ... Listener className=org.apache.catalina.startup.UserConfig directoryName=public_html userClass=org.apache.catalina.startup.PasswdUserDatabase/ ... /Host Craig McClanahan
Tomcat 4.0/Solaris why doesn't tomcat follow soft links?
Greetings, I am in the process of configuring Tomcat to be used with several classes at the Johns Hopkins University. I would like to have each student have their own webapp in their public_html directory. I tried Tomcat 3.2.1, but couldn't get the security policy to work right (all jsp pages kept wanting to use the examples directory?) I am trying Tomcat 4.0B5, and was going to use soft links in the webapps directory to point to each students public_html directory. The only problem is that Tomcat doesn't seem to want to follow the soft links. If I make a real directory in the webapps dir, everything works fine, but if I try to use a soft linked one, I get: Http Status 503 - This application is not currently available The requested service(This application is not currently available) is not currently available Any suggestions/help would be greatly appreciated. If I don't get this working within a week, it'll be back to the Java Web Server. :-( Bob
