Hello Harry, I am not familiar with a war deployed with a symbolic link, but I cannot see where the war has been expanded.
The war file is a ZIP archive that gets extracted into a directory named after the war file (in this case the directory would be "guacamole"). Usually the expansion is made in the "webapps" directory, but in your listing I can see only the symbolic link or the war file into the /etc directory, not the expanded webapp. I think you should try to instruct tomcat to folow symbolic links in the context.xml file <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <Context allowLinking="true"> https://isocra.com/2008/01/following-symbolic-links-in-tomcat/ https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-8.0-doc/config/resources.html Regards. Lorenzo Da: Devine, Harry (FAA) <harry.dev...@faa.gov.INVALID> Inviato: martedì 9 gennaio 2024 20:07 A: user@guacamole.apache.org Oggetto: Issue with new install of 1.5.4 I have an Ansible playbook that installs Guacamole on a server that we specify. It does the installation fine, but when I try to bring up the web GUI, I get a 404 error. I looked online and found others stating that the WAR file isn't being found. On our server, we have the WAR file under /etc/guacamole, then a symbolic link to that under /var/lib/tomcat/webapps: [root@guac-test /]#find * -name guacamole.war etc/guacamole/guacamole.war var/lib/tomcat/webapps/guacamole.war [root@guac-test /]#ll /etc/guacamole/ total 13420 drwxrwxr-x. 2 tomcat tomcat 103 Jan 9 11:01 extensions -rw-r--r--. 1 tomcat tomcat 670 Jan 9 09:45 guacamole.properties -rw-r--r--. 1 tomcat tomcat 13734589 Jan 9 11:02 guacamole.war drwxrwxr-x. 2 tomcat tomcat 6 Jan 9 09:45 lib [root@guac-test /]#ll /var/lib/tomcat/webapps/ total 0 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root 28 Jan 9 11:02 guacamole.war -> /etc/guacamole/guacamole.war I didn't see any errors in /var/log/messages or the Tomcat logs, and when I run "/etc/init.d/guacd status", I see that Guacamole is running. What am I missing so I can get this running, and potentially fix my Ansible role/playbook so that future installations work for us? For reference, we are moving our Guacamole servers one-by-one from RHEL 7.9 to RHEL 8.9 (as new VMs) since RHEL 7.9 will be EOL in June. Thanks, Harry Harry Devine Secure-OSE System Administrator Red Hat Certified System Administrator (RHCSA) Work: (609) 485-4218 FAA Cell: (609) 612-7274 Home Office/Telework: (609) 547-3579
