Hello,
Thanks for you reply and advice. Others asked if the JSP is correct, yes it is, there are no errors displayed. No catch(Exception ex) { /*do nothing*/} kind of code either. The error logs for Tomcat don't show anything out of the ordinary. Is there anyway to tell tomcat to allow IO access to a specific folder? Thanks for your help everyone. I'm looking through the log files. Caldarale, Charles R wrote: > >> From: raga2 [mailto:ragabo...@gmail.com] >> Subject: Re: Which user executes JSP in Tomcat? >> >> ps -aef tells me it's root running tomcat. > > That's a really bad thing to do. You should be running Tomcat under a > userid that does not give it the privilege to scribble anywhere in the > file system. If you need to access ports < 1024, start Tomcat with jsvc, > or use iptables to redirect the low ports to what's configured in Tomcat. > > Back to your original problem: there's no guarantee that a servlet > container will allow webapp code to have access to any part of the file > system, other than a spec-defined work area. Tomcat usually does allow > such access, unless you're running with a security manager. If you're > trying to use relative paths in your directory and file creation, then > you're likely trying to write within Tomcat's directory structure, which > is another Really Bad Thing. Make sure that wherever you're writing is > outside of Tomcat. > > (And if you're using a 3rd-party, repackaged version of Tomcat, it's > anybody's guess where all the pieces of Tomcat are, since the repackagers > seem to delight in scattering bits of Tomcat all over, and then tying > things back together with a mess of symlinks - bloody ridiculous.) > > - Chuck > > > THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY > MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you > received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail > and its attachments from all computers. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Which-user-executes-JSP-in-Tomcat--tp22865557p22893516.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org