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 --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]