I have received partial success. Windows has a bad habit to do things by default or to do things whcihc make no sense. The problem was due to inherritance/ permissions for Windows folder. Unsetting the read-only thing does not work, becasuse windows changes it to read-only by default. The only way one can work around is to change the "folder options for XP", in view you have an option to change the security configuration. This will provide you with more granular (user based permissions for folders/files) access. Now you can change options you like. In unix "chown" and "chmod" would have solved the problems.
Thanks for help!! Lalit On 9/8/05, Robert Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Tomcat will also need write access rights. When it starts, it changes some > of the XML configuration files and tries to create logs as well. You could > give your user full control to the tree under your CATALINA_HOME. Since > you > say that when you set the User to have power user rights it Tomcat seems > to > run, I would guess that this would fix your problem. Logs of the error > might > help more but if Tomcat cannot write to the directories, logs will not be > able to be created. > > Not knowing more detail, this would be my guess. > > Robert S. Harper > Information Access Technology, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Lalit Batra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:56 AM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: Re: Windows and Tomcat > > Robert, > Thanks for replying! > 1) When I installed it I was in Admin user, and installed it with Service > option. In windows services, "Apache Tomcat" we have an option of starting > with USER. The service starts and shows me the owner as the "User" and > even > in the Process information from (task Managger) I see "User" as the > process > (tomcat) owner. So yes it starts with the USER I started the service with. > > 2) "User" priveledges: The user has read+Execute permissions for the > webapps > > folder (changed it also for Aplication folder Tomcat under programs) and > restarted many times.Still http://localhost does not come up. (I am using > 80, modified server to run on port 80). > > 3) If I put the "USER" to "Power User Group of XP" everything works. > > > please help > > thanks, > Lalit > > > On 9/8/05, Robert Harper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > When you installed Tomcat, you were prompted if you want it to run as a > > service and if so, what user to use. You should be able to go into your > > Services app under ControlPannel\Administrative Tools\Services and > change > > the use and password that Tomcat starts with. If you need to, create an > > account with the rights you want and set the service to start with that > > account and the password to use. You can also set how Tomcat is to start > > as > > well. > > > > Robert S. Harper > > Information Access Technology, Inc. > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Lalit Batra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 10:32 AM > > To: tomcat-user@jakarta.apache.org > > Subject: Windows and Tomcat > > > > Hi! > > I am new to the world of Tomcat and have recently installed 5.5.9 on a > > Windows (2003 and XP) Box. It works fine but only with Users having > > Administrative/power user privileges. > > 1) When the service for tomcat is started with USER option, it does not > go > > and read the Webapps. The folder has read+execute, read options set for > > the > > normal USER. > > 2) I have tried the same scenarios on both XP and Server 2003, the > result > > is > > > > same. > > > > Do we have to configure the tomcat-users.xml and if so then how do we > add > > the access for a normal user on Windows Box. > > > > Please help! > > > > Thanks, > > Lalit > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
