Hi,

You could try a chmod on the directory your uploading ur files onto.

Regards,
Neville


On Thursday 06 February 2003 10:27, you wrote:
> Hello All
>
> Hope somebody can help me!
>
> I am using Tomcat 4.0.3 on a Red Hat Linux 7.1 system with Apache 1.3.27,
> and it works fine if started without the security manager. Recently I had
> to put up a file upload form on one of my web sites, and when I deployed
> the jsp to accept the form data and save the uploaded file to disk...it
> came up with the error "File cannot be saved". I am using jspSmartUpload
> class to handle the multipart form data and to save the file to disk, which
> can be downloaded from www.jspsmart.com
>
> So I read the documentation and figured, the security manager might have to
> be enabled with appropriate File IO permissions set for the directory to
> which I was trying to save the file.
>
> I proceeded to add the required "grant" directive in the catalina.policy
> file, and when I started Tomcat with the security manager enabled....it
> wouldn't start! I checked catalina.out and saw that Tomcat is not able to
> read server.xml. Here is the stacktrace I found in catalina.out
>
> Catalina.start: java.security.AccessControlException: access denied
> (java.io.FilePermission /var/tomcat4/conf/server.xml read)
> java.security.AccessControlException: access denied (java.io.FilePermission
> /var/tomcat4/conf/server.xml read) at
> java.security.AccessControlContext.checkPermission(AccessControlContext.jav
>a:270) at
> java.security.AccessController.checkPermission(AccessController.java:401)
> at java.lang.SecurityManager.checkPermission(SecurityManager.java:542) at
> java.lang.SecurityManager.checkRead(SecurityManager.java:887) at
> java.io.File.isDirectory(File.java:698)
>         at
> sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.connect(FileURLConnection.java:
>65) at
> sun.net.www.protocol.file.FileURLConnection.getInputStream(FileURLConnectio
>n.java:148) at java.net.URL.openStream(URL.java:955)
>         at
> org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultReaderFactory.createReader(DefaultReaderFa
>ctory.java) at
> org.apache.xerces.readers.DefaultEntityHandler.startReadingFromDocument(Def
>aultEntityHandler.java) at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parseSomeSetup(XMLParser.java) at
> org.apache.xerces.framework.XMLParser.parse(XMLParser.java) at
> org.xml.sax.helpers.XMLReaderAdapter.parse(XMLReaderAdapter.java:223) at
> javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:314)
>         at javax.xml.parsers.SAXParser.parse(SAXParser.java:253)
>         at
> org.apache.catalina.util.xml.XmlMapper.readXml(XmlMapper.java:228) at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.start(Catalina.java:725) at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.execute(Catalina.java:681) at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.Catalina.process(Catalina.java:179) at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method) at
> sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:3
>9) at
> sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImp
>l.java:25) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
>         at org.apache.catalina.startup.Bootstrap.main(Bootstrap.java:243)
>
> Then, I found from the security manager howto on the web site, that if no
> security manager is enabled, its just like giving all permissions...I am
> guessing this means that in that case the operating system file permission
> system only will be in effect. So I made the directory I wanted to save the
> file into, world writable, just to make sure the OS is not preventing the
> save operation. Then started Tomcat without the security manager...still
> the same result!
>
> Now I am totally confused! What am I doing wrong?
> Can anybody help me? Please?
>
> Thanks and Regards
> Harish

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