I think I will blow my brains out.
I thought they were running 4.1.24, but they were really running
4.1.12. It looks like this did not work for that version.
Doh. Time for an upgrade.
--- Norris Shelton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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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