I had to do something funky with the catalina.policy file to get jspwiki
working in tomcat8 (apt-get installed)
grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/-" {
// !!change the directory to the location you want to locate your
wiki files!!
permission java.io.FilePermission
"file:/usr/share/tomcat8/jspwiki-files/-", "read, write";
// just allow the entire codebase permissions to do what it needs.
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
// this file does not exist, but it does solve a problem with
exceptions being thrown in syslog
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" {
permission java.io.FilePermission
"/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties",
"read";
};
On 9 January 2017 at 00:13, Rick Brockman <r...@richardbrockman.info> wrote:
> Like you John I'm a Rip van Winkle of bygone computer days. When I
> installed Tomcat using apt-get I ran into problems and instead of knocking
> my head against the sleep pillow, I downloaded tomcat from the web and its
> working...
>
> On 2017-01-08 16:10, John Lusk wrote:
>
>> Ok, friends. Trying to get JSPWiki set up on a new Amazon EC2 Unbuntu
>> 16.04 instance I just stood up, and I'm having some trouble. Help?
>>
>> I installed Tomcat8 using apt-get, I wound up with:
>>
>> /etc/default/tomcat8
>> /etc/init.d/tomcat8
>> /etc/tomcat8
>> Catalina/localhost/{docs,examples,host-manager,manager}.xml
>> (These have docbase pointing to corresponding subdirs of
>> /usr/share.)
>> /usr/share/tomcat8
>> /var/lib/tomcat8, which has a webapps subdir.
>>
>> It all seems to be working fine.
>>
>> So, I downloaded jspwiki.war 2.10.2, renamed it to "wiki.war", and
>> copied it to /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps, where it promptly got unpacked.
>>
>> Now, I can see it in my Tomcat app manager, but when I attempt to
>> start it, I get failures.
>>
>> First, I got OutOfMemory errors.
>>
>> I assume Tomcat's default -Xmx=128m is way too small, so I bumped it
>> up to 768m (I've only got a 1GB EC2 instance (t2.micro), so I think
>> 768m is living dangerously, eh?).
>>
>> Now I'm getting errors like
>>
>> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log ERROR: Failed to
>> create
>> a Wiki engine: JSPWiki: Unable to load and setup properties from
>> jspwiki.properties. Failed to start. Caused by: Failed to instantiate
>> class
>> org.apache.wiki.PageManager; please check log files for better
>> information.
>>
>> (in localhost.2017-01-08.log)
>>
>> and
>>
>> java.io.FileNotFoundException: jspwiki.log (Permission denied)
>>
>> (in catalina.out)
>>
>> and
>>
>> INFO [__DEFAULT__]
>> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateF
>> orResourceLoading
>> Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.
>> Could not load [net/sf/ehcache/version.properties].
>>
>> (in catalina.2017-01-08.log)
>>
>> I grabbed jspwiki.properties with:
>>
>> unzip jspwiki-war-2.10.2.jar ini/jspwiki.properties
>>
>> and modified it as follows (renaming it jspwiki-custom.properties):
>>
>> 51c51
>> < jspwiki.baseURL=http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki/
>> ---
>> > jspwiki.baseURL=http://web.how-hard-can-it-be.com/wiki/
>> 102c102
>> < # jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /p/web/www-data/jspwiki/
>> ---
>> > jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /etc/jspwiki/pages
>> 144c144
>> < # jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = C:\\Data\\jspwiki
>> ---
>> > jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir =
>> /etc/jspwiki/attachments
>> 605c605
>> < #jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/groupdatabase.xml
>> ---
>> > jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/groupdatabase.xml
>> 626c626
>> < #jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/userdatabase.xml
>> ---
>> > jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/userdatabase.xml
>> 885c885
>> < log4j.appender.FileLog.File = jspwiki.log
>> ---
>> > log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /var/log/jspwiki/jspwiki.log
>>
>> and tried deploying it to various places
>> ({/var/lib,/usr/share}/tomcat8, /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki).
>>
>> All to no avail.
>>
>> What else can I try?
>>
>> (I'm kind of a Rip van Winkle Java web app developer -- the last time
>> I touched this technology stack was more than ten years ago, and that
>> was on JBoss, all of which I've forgotten except the pain.)
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> John.
>>
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