I copied them there and everything worked fine. WTF!!!!!!
Could it be that I am linking part of the context to a different
location? I am going to try an experiment on one of the other
Linux machines to get a known working context working via a
symlink.
--- Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What happens if you copy htmldoc to its symlink location and
> not use the sym
> link? Do you still get the same error? If you do - then the
> error has nothing
> to do with symlinks.
>
> -Tim (Grasping at straws)
>
> Norris Shelton wrote:
> > I can't get this to work. I have the following directory
> > structure:
> > /opt/jakarta/webapps/siteexplorer
> >
> > Under siteexplorer, I have a symbolic lin named htmldoc. I
> can
> > follow the links manually and everything works.
> >
> > Here is how the context is defined in the server.xml:
> > <Context docBase="./siteexplorer" priveleged="false"
> > path="/siteexplorer" >
> > <Resources
> > className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
> > allowLinking="true" caseSensitive="false" />
> > </Context>
> >
> >
> > I am running tomcat 4.1.12 on Linux. I get no messages and
> I am
> > NOT starting tomcat with -security. I even made the
> following
> > change to catalina.policy:
> > grant codeBase
> > "file:${catalina.home}/webapps/siteexplorer/htmldoc/-" {
> > permission java.security.AllPermission;
> > };
> >
> >
> >
> > Does anybody have any clue?
> >
> > --- Tim Funk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >>Tomcat by default doesn't like symbolic links. Its a
> security
> >>vulnerablility.
> >>To use sym links - you must tell tomcat to use them.
> >>
> >>
> >
> >
>
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=tomcat-user&m=105159411609623&w=2
> >
> >>-Tim
> >>
> >>Norris Shelton wrote:
> >>
> >>>We have some HTML files that are on another machine. A
> link
> >>
> >>was
> >>
> >>>created (htmldoc).
> >>>
> >>>I then modified the server.xml by adding the following to
> >>
> >>the
> >>
> >>>context definition:
> >>><Resources
> >>>className="org.apache.naming.resources.FileDirContext"
> >>>caseSensitive="false" allowLinking="true"/>
> >>>
> >>>The context will not load (no errors). I even added an
> >>
> >>entry in
> >>
> >>>the catalina.policy:
> >>>// The permissions granted to the context WEB-INF/classes
> >>>directory
> >>>grant codeBase
> >>>"file:${catalina.home}/webapps/siteexplorer/htmldoc/-" {
> >>>};
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>If I remove the allowLinking resource, the app starts
> >>
> >>correctly.
> >>
> >>> Anyone have any ideas on what the problem is.
> >>>
>
>
>
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