** Changed in: tomcat5.5 (Debian)
Status: Unknown = Fix Released
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The /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina folder must have write access for tomcat5
user
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74783
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No, a backport will not be needed, I will upgrade my server soon, but
thanks for the information.
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The /var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf/Catalina folder must have write access for tomcat5
user
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/74783
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This is fixed since Feisty
tomcat5.5 (5.5.20-4) unstable; urgency=low
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* The tomcat55 user now has write permissions to
/var/lib/tomcat5.5/conf, so that Tomcat can deploy webapps in WAR
archives. (Closes: #402224)
You should request a backport if you need it for earlier release.
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These rights must also be given to the /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps
folder, to let Tomcat be able to undeploy and deploy easily web
application from the manager application.
This is the standard work process for a Tomcat server, so it should not
be a problem to enabled this on Ubuntu packages.
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When I talk about /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps folder, I also mean
webapps/ subdirectories, which are own by root by default (balancer,
jsp-examples, servlets-examples, tomcat-docs, webdav,...)
so a
chown -R tomcat5.nogroup /var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps
should be good.
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