So, I had two possible solutions to this:
1. Hack the startup scripts to ensure that there exists a WEB-INF/web.xml file - this does not solve the problem of users being able to reload web.xml
2. Hack the manager app. This is the path that I followed, the results would have been viewable at http://hokusai.cs.up.ac.za:8080 but for the IT departments firewall ...
Each user is now required to log in, then he/she is presented with the options deploy,undeploy,start,stop,reload and my own creation restart, along with logout.
I've now moved on to having trouble with the security policy. It dies on access denied to a file ${java.home}/jre/lib/xerces.properties, this same policy works fine on tc4.0.3, but tc4.1.26 dies a horrible, but quick death.
I see there is another thread on this also, my implementation is extremely specific to our specific setup (there is no time to do it the "correct" way - not that there seems to be one).
Jaco
Shapira, Yoav wrote:
Howdy, You can't just set each <Context> to have reloadable="true" ? That will reload their webapp when they edit web.xml...
Yoav Shapira Millennium ChemInformatics
-----Original Message----- From: Jaco Kroon [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 12:15 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ManagerServlet (autherization on a percontext basis)
Hello,
I need to allow users previliges to manage their applications on a per-context basis. We are providing students with a webapp, where they need to build their practical. However, whenever they change web.xml they need to be able to restart their webapp.
Considering there are over 300 users I don't want to use the reloadable feature for the lib and classes directories either, as such I would prefer if I can just allow them to reload, start and stop their own webapps.
Is there any existing way of doing this or will I have to continue my hack to rewrite the ManagerServlet (or at least implement a similar class and work it into tomcat?)
btw, I'm using tomcat 4.0 (revision 0.3 at home and 1.24 where this has to be implemented actually).
I'm currently having trouble creating a subclass of HttpServlet implementing ContainerServlet that'll actually load.
Any ideas/help extremely welcome.
Jaco
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