[Bug 1308284] Re: catalina.properties points to wrong location for shared libraries and classes
This ticket seems to be a duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/+bug/1232258
The #1232258 ticket suggests instead that symlinks be created to resolve
this problem. Unfortunately, simply changing the "${catalina.home}"
settings in the catalina.properties file(s) to "${catalina.base}" won't
work in all scenarios.
A good example is when you use the "tomcat7-user" package to install
multiple instances of Tomcat under different user accounts. In this
scenario, ${catalina.base} would point at the Tomcat user account
installation (which would NOT include these various common directories
by default), while ${catalina.home} would still point at
/usr/share/tomcat7/
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catalina.properties points to wrong location for shared libraries and
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[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
After further analysis today, I realized my suggestion to correct the
configurations in catalina.properties to point at ${catalina.base}
instead of ${catalina.home} was WRONG.
The original suggestion of symlinks is a better solution, since the
location of ${catalina.base} may not always resolve to
/var/lib/tomcat7/.
A good example is when you use the "tomcat7-user" package to install
multiple instances of Tomcat under different user accounts. In this
scenario, ${catalina.base} would point at the Tomcat user account
installation (which would NOT include these various common directories),
while ${catalina.home} would still point at /usr/share/tomcat7/
So, all in all, the correct solution here seems to be what was initially
recommended. The tomcat7 package should automatically add these three
symlinks to /usr/share/tomcat7/:
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/common/ common
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/server/ server
sudo ln -s /var/lib/tomcat7/shared/ shared
As far as I'm aware those are the only symlinks that should be necessary
to resolve this issue.
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tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
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[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
Per my previous comment, this issue seems to be a possible duplicate of https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/tomcat7/+bug/1308284 -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Server Team, which is subscribed to tomcat7 in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1232258 Title: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/serverguide/+bug/1232258/+subscriptions -- Ubuntu-server-bugs mailing list Ubuntu-server-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-server-bugs
[Bug 1232258] Re: tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
I ran into this bug today on Ubuntu Server 14.04.
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure this is an issue of missing symbolic
links, but rather a minor misconfiguration of catalina.properties on
Ubuntu 14.04. Specifically, the "server.loader" and "shared.loader"
settings are referencing CATALINA_HOME instead of CATALINA_BASE.
So, for example, on Ubuntu 12.04, the default
/var/lib/tomcat7/conf/catalina.properties sets these properties as the
following:
server.loader=/var/lib/tomcat7/server/classes,/var/lib/tomcat7/server/*.jar
shared.loader=/var/lib/tomcat7/shared/classes,/var/lib/tomcat7/shared/*.jar
However, on Ubuntu 14.04, the hardcoded "/var/lib/tomcat7/" paths have
been replaced with "${catalina.home}", so it looks like this:
server.loader=${catalina.home}/server/classes,${catalina.home}/server/*.jar
shared.loader=${catalina.home}/shared/classes,${catalina.home}/shared/*.jar
Unfortunately, "${catalina.home}" translates to "/usr/share/tomcat7"...
which is not the proper setting. As we know, these directories don't
exist under "/usr/share/tomcat7" (CATALINA_HOME)
The correct setting should be replacing those with ${catalina.base}, as
all the referenced directories do exist under "/var/lib/tomcat7"
(CATALINA_BASE). So, the correct settings seem to be:
server.loader=${catalina.base}/server/classes,${catalina.base}/server/*.jar
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/*.jar
This same misconfiguration existing in both of these catalina.properties files:
* /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/catalina.properties
* /usr/share/tomcat7/skel/conf/catalina.properties (installed by the
tomcat7-user package)
Obviously, creating the symbolic links from these directories in
/var/lib/tomcat7/ to /usr/share/tomcat7/ would also be a possible
solution. But, it's different than how things were setup in Ubuntu
12.04, when the configurations in catalina.properties were just using
CATALINA_BASE directly.
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