Hi,
Q1)
Probably still a user-rights problem. Make sure user nobody has rwx on
$TOMCAT_HOME/work and access to all context dirs (under webapp)
Q2)
You might encounter several problems here. With some clever links and
mod_rewrite rules you might establish a per user mapped context-dir but do
you want to have all 3500 with in one Tomcat instance(one JVM). If one needs
to reload/stop a servlet the engine has to be stopped for all 3499 users as
well.
To bypass that you will need a separate Tomcat for each user with will lead
to a lot of memory and cpu consumption.
Reagards,
Andreas
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Bussenschutt [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 4:31 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Q's: running tomcat as 'nobody', and thousands of servlet
> context entries
>
>
> Hi All,
>
> I've read the tomcat-apache howto at:
> http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/jakarta-tomcat/src/doc/tomcat
> -apache-howto.
> html
> (and also the users-guide, the mod_jk howto, the list
> archives etc etc.)
>
> I have installed: linux 2.2.14 ; apache 1.3.12 (mod_ssl &
> php4 & mod_so
> statically linked; mod_jk, etc etc dyn. linked); tomcat
> 3.2beta8 (milestone
> release) ; mod_jk compiled and installed
>
> QUESTION 1.
>
> When I run tomcat as 'nobody' as suggested in the above howto
> document, I
> was initially getting all sorts of problems with 'nobody' not having
> permission to write the log files etc, but with that all
> fixed, I now get
> the following jsp errors from tomcat on startup:
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
> cannot load servlet name: jsp
> cannot load servlet name: jsp
> cannot load
> servlet name:
> jsp
> --------------------------------------------------------------
> ------------
>
> but it doesn't seem to prevent the example jsp and servlets
> from working
> (once the log file permissions are fixed) ... what does it mean?
>
> When I run tomcat as 'root' these problems don't exist, and
> the jsp and
> servlet examples run fine.
>
> So, can you give me any hints as to what the problem might be?
>
> QUESTION 2.
>
> I have another server I wish to install this on, and it has about 3500
> users (students) that will all be wanting to use servlets/jsp in their
> projects. They all get http://localhost/~username/ access to
> their pages,
> and also get cgi access through a global apache directive of :
> ScriptAliasMatch ^/([^/]+)-bin(.*) /home/$1/cgi-bin$2
> which allows cgi's within their own ~username space.
> (seen as http://localhost/~username-bin/ and available in the file
> heirarchy as ~username/cgi-bin/ )
>
> How do I go about giving them access to run servlets from
> their ~username
> space? eg:
> (seen as http://localhost/~username-servlet/ and available in
> their own
> home as ~username/servlet/ ??? )
> It's not practical to create 3500 Context entries into the
> server.xml, one
> for each user, so how might I go about this?
>
> Also, How do I go about giving them access to run jsp from
> their username
> space?
> Is it as simple as adding a directive somewhere saying that
> all *.jsp files
> are redirected to the JVM? If so I must have mussed that in the
> documentation somewhere...?
>
> Thanks,
>
> David.
>
> P.S. These might be good questions to add to your original
> 'apache-tomcat'
> howto, or to a FAQ someplace, assuming you have an answer... ;-)
>
>
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