On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 02:54:01PM +0200, Rolf Schumacher wrote:
> To whom it may concern:
>
> As the Debian way of managing Linux gets more attention I'd like to
> see an up-to-date Debian JSPWiki-package that works seemlessly at
> least with the Tomcat package. However, I do not know yet how to
> create it.
I believe there is already a maintainer for jspwiki in debian, but its stuck at
2.2.33, the upgrade is waiting on another dependency can't remember what it is
(I think it is part of gcj and its libraries)
>
> I have installed Tomcat by "apt-get install tomcat5.5".
> This led to a very conservative configuration in terms of security.
> I had to perform 3 changes in order to get JSPWiki running:
>
> 1. create a directory /p, change the owner to "tomcat55"
>
> 2. change in /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5
> from >TOMCAT5_SECURITY=yes<
> to >TOMCAT5_SECURITY=no<
>
> 3. change in /etc/init.d/tomcat5.5
> from >find "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/ -mindepth 1 -exec rm -f {} +<
> to >find "$CATALINA_BASE"/temp/ -mindepth 1 -exec rm -fr {} +<
>
> Explenation:
>
> 1.
> The "/" root directory is by default not accessable to user tomcat55
> while dropping the downloaded JSPWiki.war file tries to create
> /p/web/www-data/jspwiki.
> Alternatively you may start JSPWiki in tomcat, ignoring the error that
> tomcat connot start it.
> This will extract the .war file giving you access to change
> WEB-DE/jspwiki.properties.
> BTW: I would recommend to fallback creating the default where
> java.io.tmpdir is pointing to.
>
> 2.
> Using the Java security manager would hinder JSPWiki from start
> leading to some security exceptions.
> BTW: If I do have the time I will investigate this subject as many
> people feel afraid these days switching off security. Currently I don't.
>
> 3.
> Lucene is creating folders in Tomcats temp-dir. If you do not
> recursively delete the content from tomcats temp-dir tomcat fails to
> restart.
> To my opinion this seems to be a debian packaging/installation error.
> However, I do not know where to report this bug.
>
> --
> Rolf Schumacher
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>
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