On Sun Dec 14 10:18:41 2025 Christopher Schultz <[email protected]> wrote: > > Mark, > > On 12/14/25 12:54 AM, Mark Foley wrote: > > OK, I've given up on my initial approach to getting Apache Tomcat 10.1.13 to > > run. I'e wiped the 10.1.13 directory and re-installed from the tarfile > > (originally downloaded from tomcat.apache.org). > > > > I added the following to context.xml: > > > > <Resources allowLinking="true" /> > > Which context.xml did you modify?
$CATALINA_HOME/conf/context.xml > You should leave all files alone in the Tomcat installation. You should > only be changing files in your application. Not sure what this means. I'm no Tomcat expert and I don't know where else I'd change these configs. > > Why? Because many of the jsp files are linked to a common source. > This is good information to have. Can you be very specific about that > symlinks you have? Not just where they point, but what their sources > are? Like /foo/bar/baz points to /a/b/c. I've been doing this for years. For example, I have 20 hosted domains, all of which are similar except for images, style sheets and displayed content stored in the database. So, I have in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/common/ -rw-r----- 1 mfoley mason 27378 2025-10-09 00:31 index.jsp and in $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/horeb-wright3/ lrwxrwxrwx 1 mfoley mason 19 2022-05-23 02:46 index.jsp -> ../common/index.jsp -rw-rw---- 1 mfoley mason 6583 2022-03-18 07:09 style.css common is not deployed. I haven't tried removing the allowLinking fom this iteration, but I recall this being needed or symlinks like this don't work. > > I added the following to web.xml: > > > > <security-constraint> [snip] > > </security-constraint> > > > > I added the following to server.xml: > > > > <Connector protocol="AJP/1.3" > > address="127.0.0.1" > > port="8009" > > redirectPort="8443" > > maxParameterCount="1000" > > secretRequired="false" > > /> > > > > The 'secretRequired' thing was from notes on a previous, successful 10.1.13 > > deployment. > > Just confirming: you are using Apache httpd with mod_jk or mod_proxy_ajp > as a reverse proxy in front of Tomcat? Yes, apache with mod_jk. > > I removed from server.xml: [snip] > > I configured only one local hostname in server.xml: > > > > <Host name="www.horeb-wright3.org" appBase="webapps" > > unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"> > > > > <Alias>horeb-wright3.org</Alias> > > > > <Context path="" docBase="horeb-wright3" reloadable="false"> > > <WatchedResource>/WEB-INF/web.xml</WatchedResource> > > <WatchedResource>/style.css</WatchedResource> > > </Context> > > </Host> > > Not recommended, but okay. If you have <Context> in conf/server.xml and > also the file is in the webapps/ directory, then you will deploy the > application TWICE. Once on / (becasue you d <Context path="">, and once > on /horeb-wright3 because you have autoDeploy="true" and a directory > called webapps/horeb-wright3). This may be multiplying all of your error > messages by 2 in the log file. > > It's not really dangerous, just confusing and wasteful. I assume you're referring to the "autoDeploy" setting and not the whole <Context> tag. Yes, you mentioned the double deployment before, but I wanted to change as little as possible just to get things running. I plan on setting these <Host> autoDeploys to false later. > If you can get away without putting <Context> in conf/server.xml, then I > would recommend that you remove it. If you want to deploy an application > on / then re-name the diretory horeb-wright3 to be ROOT (case-sensitive). Again, I'm unclear here. I have 20 such directories like horeb-wright. I don't know how I would specify docBase, etc. without the <Context> tag. I didn't unilaterally put these in the server.xml file based on my own Tomcat "expertise". I got the info from help forums and other Tomcat advisory sources. If there is a better way I'll be glad to try. > > I also installed tomcat-connectors 1.2.50 in > > /usr/lib64/httpd/modules/mod_jk.so. > > Okay I guess you are using mod_jk then :) > > > I then started tomcat and got numerous errors in catalina.out. > > > > Now, the jsp programs in webapps/horeb-wright3 were all created and running > > under > > apache 8.5.11. I do know that lots of javax stuff was replaced by jakarta. > > So, if > > I can get the right jakarta lib references into these jsp programs I might > > be out > > of the woods. > > Tomcat can migrate your application for you, automatically. In the > Tomcat 10.1.x deployment, put your application into webapps-javaee/ > instead of webapps/ > > Tomcat will auto-replace the Java EE imports with Jakarta EE imports > during the deployment. > > Then you don't have to modify your original application just to test it > with Tomcat 10.1. There is no webapps-javaee directory in the tarfile. Do I just create it, move my JSPs to that directory, then start Tomcat? I can try that later. [snip] OK, we hve a breakthrough! I've removed and reinstalled Tomcat 10.1.13 for the 3rd time. I've kept the same config files as described above except I've removed the <Host name="horeb-wright"> tag completely, along with that directory in webapps. All I left in webapps (other than the default installed folders) is common. I put that "hello World!" index.jsp in webapps/common and started tomcat. It started and I got the index.jsp page on a browser! Yay! I then put in common's actual index.jsp and, after some tweaks with missing includes (common is supposed to only hold symlink references, not be actually deployed), and supplying some missing libraries, I got the REAL index.jsp to run. Next, I copied all the files for horeb-wright from the 8.5.11 directory to webapps, which includes the lhink to ../common/index.jsp, and that loaded OK! I then copied over all the other webapps from 8.5.11/webapps, added their <Host> tags to server.xml, and they also loaded and ran. So, whew! it is working! I went ahead and changed the autoDeploy="true" to "false" in server.xml, and that seemed to work too. So far, I have not run into any issues with javax vs jakarta, but if you can answer my quetion on that auto-convert I'll be ready to try that. I know I have a few programs using an obsolete org.apache.commons.fileupload class, but this mailList helped me with that 3 years ago, so I think I canfigure that out. I don't know what I did differently on this successful round. Maybe I had deleted something needful (I did remove the default webapps folders, ROOT, etc. I did not do so this time). The configs, webapps, and the like are the same as in my previous post (as far as I know). If you can provide some feedback on my questions on your comments avobe, I think we can stick a fork in this one. 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