After further analysis today, I realized my suggestion to correct the
configurations in catalina.properties to point at ${catalina.base}
instead of ${catalina.home} was WRONG.
The original suggestion of symlinks is a better solution, since the
location of ${catalina.base} may not always resolve to
/var/lib/tomcat7/.
A good example is when you use the "tomcat7-user" package to install
multiple instances of Tomcat under different user accounts. In this
scenario, ${catalina.base} would point at the Tomcat user account
installation (which would NOT include these various common directories),
while ${catalina.home} would still point at /usr/share/tomcat7/
So, all in all, the correct solution here seems to be what was initially
recommended. The tomcat7 package should automatically add these three
symlinks to /usr/share/tomcat7/:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/common/ common
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/server/ server
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/shared/ shared
As far as I'm aware those are the only symlinks that should be necessary
to resolve this issue.
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tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
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