Ah, I am not sure about Jetty but for Tomcat, it does not matter if the data folder is 777/rwxrwxrwx, if it is not listed in the tomcat.service file, it can't be written to, as far as I am aware under Tomcat9.
Russ > On 20 Oct 2021, at 12:53, Steffen Reichel <st_reic...@gmx.net> wrote: > > Hi, > > thank you for your quick answer. > > On 20.10.21 12:16, Russ Hore wrote: >> Are you running under Linux/Tomcat? > Jetty behind an Apache proxy on Linux > >> In the latest(?) Tomcat you need to explicitly give permission for Tomcat to >> rad the data folder. >> It is on a file called /lib/systemd/system/tomcat.service >> >> You need to add a line; >> ReadWritePaths=<path to your data folder> > The path is writable. The logfile is also stored there and can be > written to. Geoserver also loads the layers, styles (at least the log > says so) etc. before crashing with the error described. > > I was mainly wondering if it is safe to delete the folder (or empty the > whole gcw-layers/ folder), or not and if so, what configurations I'd > have to redo to set up GWC properly again for all layers. > > Cheers, > Steffen _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list Please make sure you read the following two resources before posting to this list: - Earning your support instead of buying it, but Ian Turton: http://www.ianturton.com/talks/foss4g.html#/ - The GeoServer user list posting guidelines: http://geoserver.org/comm/userlist-guidelines.html If you want to request a feature or an improvement, also see this: https://github.com/geoserver/geoserver/wiki/Successfully-requesting-and-integrating-new-features-and-improvements-in-GeoServer Geoserver-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users