Never mind: You need to find the tomcat systemd unit file (tomcat9.service) if you install the default Ubuntu tomcat package and make sure tomcat user you see in the unit file has write permission over the DSpace folder and need to tell tomcat it can write into DSpace folder as you see it highlted in red.
[Service] # Configuration Environment="CATALINA_HOME=/usr/share/tomcat9" Environment="CATALINA_BASE=/var/lib/tomcat9" Environment="CATALINA_TMPDIR=/tmp" Environment="JAVA_OPTS=-Djava.awt.headless=true -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" # Lifecycle Type=simple ExecStartPre=+/usr/libexec/tomcat9/tomcat-update-policy.sh ExecStart=/bin/sh /usr/libexec/tomcat9/tomcat-start.sh SuccessExitStatus=143 Restart=on-abort # Logging SyslogIdentifier=tomcat9 # Security *User=tomcat* Group=tomcat PrivateTmp=yes AmbientCapabilities=CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE NoNewPrivileges=true CacheDirectory=tomcat9 CacheDirectoryMode=750 ProtectSystem=strict ReadWritePaths=/etc/tomcat9/Catalina/ ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/tomcat9/webapps/ ReadWritePaths=/var/log/tomcat9/ *ReadWritePaths=/opt/dspace* [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 3:06:23 PM UTC+3 Mohammad S. AlMutairi wrote: > Which Operating System are you using? > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2022 at 2:47:53 PM UTC+3 jesse...@gmail.com > wrote: > >> Hi, >> I am struggling to get this software to work for the last 2 months, and >> still no success. >> I did the Dspace 7.4 backend installation on my Ubuntu 22.04 computer, >> installed Solr from source, installed tomcat9 from the apt package manager, >> and compiled the DSpace code for the backend. >> Everything is running under a dedicated 'DSpace' system user. It went >> well and I can access the backend HAL interface on localhost:8080/server. >> >> Further, I went to install the frontend on the same machine, under the >> same user (i.e., dspace), and installed node js, yarn, and everything as >> mentioned in DSpace wiki, it also went well and I could see my DSpace 7 >> home screen for the first time. It was beautiful and I was happy, I logged >> in with my administrative users, and created some communities and >> collections. it is all working. BUT I CAN NOT UPLOAD ANY FILE, NOT EVEN THE >> COMMUNITY LOGO's. >> I am so fed up with this software, Error logs are of no help. i thought >> it would be a permission issue, but my system user 'dspace' is the owner of >> both dspace backend folder, and also dspace-angular, tomcat9, Solr, and >> yarn both are running under 'dsapce' system user. still, I can't upload >> anything. I can't figure out what I did wrong, and where I'm missing >> something, and at this point, I'm too tired to re-install it again and >> again (like I've been doing for the last 2 months). >> >> Seriously!!, please help, I need to get this working. >> >> >> Thank You >> >> Rupinder Singh >> >> -- All messages to this mailing list should adhere to the Code of Conduct: https://www.lyrasis.org/about/Pages/Code-of-Conduct.aspx --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "DSpace Technical Support" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dspace-tech+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/dspace-tech/fcfcb4fb-262a-4bc3-95c0-ffeafb8f5334n%40googlegroups.com.
