On Wed, Apr 15, 2015 at 08:33:00AM -0500, Mark Thomas wrote:
> On 15/04/2015 05:28, Dominic Hargreaves wrote:

> > I am running the Tomcat manager application via a Debian package
> > (tomcat8-admin), which deploys the webapp from
> > /usr/share/tomcat8-admin/manager. We ran into a problem hitting th 
> > maximum upload size (configured as the multipart-config element in the
> > HTMLManager servlet block). This is easy to fix if you're willing to
> > edit Debian-packaged files, but this is incorrect: files in /usr/share
> > are owned exclusively by dpkg. Is there a way to override this element
> > from somewhere in tomcat's conf directory (which is symlinked to
> > /etc/tomcat8 in Debian)?
> 
> No. The web application setting would take priority.

Okay, thanks for confirming.

> > If it's not possible to override this at the moment, then is this a bug
> > in Tomcat, or the Debian packaging?
> 
> I'd say the bug is in the Debian packaging (but I would say that
> wouldn't I).
> 
> Without know how Tomcat is packaged in Debian, I would expect the following:
> - the Manager web application to be a separate, optional package

Yep, it is.

> - the web.xml to be placed in an appropriate location for users to be
> able to edit it.
> 
> I took a quick look through the web.xml for the Manager app. There are
> plenty of settings I wouldn't expect to change but there are a handful
> of things that users might want to tweak.
> 
> In theory, it should be possible to move those settings to context.xml
> but that would require code changes and would mean do things that were
> contrary to the spirit of the servlet spec so there would likely be
> resistance to such changes from the Tomcat community.
> 
> One option would be for Debian to use external entities for the
> configurable elements and place the file that defines those entities
> somewhere where users can edit it.

Okay, that's an interesting idea if it's possible to agree on a sane set :)

Thanks for your feedback!

Cheers,
Dominic.

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