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
