Howdy,

>We will install Tomcat 4.1.24 on a server which is behind our corporate

Why not 4.1.27?

>Now, my question is that, what is the common practice to guard against
>people accessing the catalina_home directory?  I plan to install Tomcat
on
>the D drive instead of the C drive where the OS resides.  Just in case
if
>the Windows OS is compromised, it may or may not affect Tomcat.

Use a security manager:
http://jakarta.apache.org/tomcat/tomcat-4.1-doc/security-manager-howto.h
tml

Make your security policy as restrictive as possible.  Deploy a packed
war and leave it packed, i.e. set unpackWARs=false in server.xml.  Also
autoDeploy=false to increase performance and security.

Yoav Shapira



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