Thanks. Is there another directory than the exploded war file? Reason I ask is if I get a new war file at some point, that exploded directory will go away, along w/my customized properties file. (I'll always be able to restore it after a certain amount of fumbling around, but I'd expect to put customizations elsewhere.)
On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:01 PM, David Vittor <dvit...@gmail.com> wrote: > The customized properites file is: jspwiki-custom.properties > > This should be located in <tomcat>/webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/classes > > You can change the workDir, or just the log file: > jspwiki.workDir=/opt/digitalspider/jspwiki/wikis/testwiki/data/ > log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /var/jspwiki/logs/jspwiki.log > > See the docs here: > * https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Documentation > * https://jspwiki-wiki.apache.org/Wiki.jsp?page=Getting%20Started > > But if you have a permission error, it might be more than just the log > file. > > Cheers, > David V > > > > > On Wed, Jan 11, 2017 at 1:07 PM, John Lusk <johnlu...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Ok, so I added the following to my /etc/tomcat8/policy.d/ > 03catalina.policy > > file: > > > > grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/wiki/-" { > > permission java.io.FilePermission "file:/usr/share/jspwiki-files/-", > > "read, write"; > > permission java.security.AllPermission; > > }; > > > > which (a) doesn't seem to have caused any disasters (yay), but (b) hasn't > > done anything nice (boo). I did a /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart. The edits > > appear in /var/cache/tomcat8/catalina.policy, so I guess that's good. > > > > Still getting a permission error on jspwiki.log. Golly day, it sure would > > be nice if I had a complete pathname to work with on this one. Not juse > > "jspwiki.log". > > > > I have chowned various directories to tomcat8:tomcat8, which is the > userid > > the process runs under. > > > > Next step: where the heck do I put the customized properties file, what > do > > I name it? Possibilities are: > > > > > > - jspwiki.properties > > - jspwiki-custom.properties > > - wiki.properties > > - wiki-custom.properties > > > > Maginc incantation, anyone? (Plus path, would be nice.) > > > > (Thanks.) > > > > John. > > > > On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Col Willis <col.wil...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > I had to do something funky with the catalina.policy file to get > jspwiki > > > working in tomcat8 (apt-get installed) > > > > > > grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/-" { > > > // !!change the directory to the location you want to locate your > > > wiki files!! > > > permission java.io.FilePermission > > > "file:/usr/share/tomcat8/jspwiki-files/-", "read, write"; > > > > > > // just allow the entire codebase permissions to do what it needs. > > > permission java.security.AllPermission; > > > }; > > > > > > // this file does not exist, but it does solve a problem with > > > exceptions being thrown in syslog > > > grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" { > > > permission java.io.FilePermission > > > "/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties", > > > "read"; > > > }; > > > > > > > > > On 9 January 2017 at 00:13, Rick Brockman <r...@richardbrockman.info> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > Like you John I'm a Rip van Winkle of bygone computer days. When I > > > > installed Tomcat using apt-get I ran into problems and instead of > > > knocking > > > > my head against the sleep pillow, I downloaded tomcat from the web > and > > > its > > > > working... > > > > > > > > On 2017-01-08 16:10, John Lusk wrote: > > > > > > > >> Ok, friends. Trying to get JSPWiki set up on a new Amazon EC2 > Unbuntu > > > >> 16.04 instance I just stood up, and I'm having some trouble. Help? > > > >> > > > >> I installed Tomcat8 using apt-get, I wound up with: > > > >> > > > >> /etc/default/tomcat8 > > > >> /etc/init.d/tomcat8 > > > >> /etc/tomcat8 > > > >> Catalina/localhost/{docs,examples,host-manager,manager}.xml > > > >> (These have docbase pointing to corresponding subdirs of > > > >> /usr/share.) > > > >> /usr/share/tomcat8 > > > >> /var/lib/tomcat8, which has a webapps subdir. > > > >> > > > >> It all seems to be working fine. > > > >> > > > >> So, I downloaded jspwiki.war 2.10.2, renamed it to "wiki.war", and > > > >> copied it to /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps, where it promptly got > unpacked. > > > >> > > > >> Now, I can see it in my Tomcat app manager, but when I attempt to > > > >> start it, I get failures. > > > >> > > > >> First, I got OutOfMemory errors. > > > >> > > > >> I assume Tomcat's default -Xmx=128m is way too small, so I bumped it > > > >> up to 768m (I've only got a 1GB EC2 instance (t2.micro), so I think > > > >> 768m is living dangerously, eh?). > > > >> > > > >> Now I'm getting errors like > > > >> > > > >> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log ERROR: Failed to > > > >> create > > > >> a Wiki engine: JSPWiki: Unable to load and setup properties from > > > >> jspwiki.properties. Failed to start. Caused by: Failed to > instantiate > > > >> class > > > >> org.apache.wiki.PageManager; please check log files for better > > > >> information. > > > >> > > > >> (in localhost.2017-01-08.log) > > > >> > > > >> and > > > >> > > > >> java.io.FileNotFoundException: jspwiki.log (Permission denied) > > > >> > > > >> (in catalina.out) > > > >> > > > >> and > > > >> > > > >> INFO [__DEFAULT__] > > > >> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateF > > > >> orResourceLoading > > > >> Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped > > already. > > > >> Could not load [net/sf/ehcache/version.properties]. > > > >> > > > >> (in catalina.2017-01-08.log) > > > >> > > > >> I grabbed jspwiki.properties with: > > > >> > > > >> unzip jspwiki-war-2.10.2.jar ini/jspwiki.properties > > > >> > > > >> and modified it as follows (renaming it jspwiki-custom.properties): > > > >> > > > >> 51c51 > > > >> < jspwiki.baseURL=http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki/ > > > >> --- > > > >> > jspwiki.baseURL=http://web.how-hard-can-it-be.com/wiki/ > > > >> 102c102 > > > >> < # jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = > /p/web/www-data/jspwiki/ > > > >> --- > > > >> > jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /etc/jspwiki/pages > > > >> 144c144 > > > >> < # jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = > > C:\\Data\\jspwiki > > > >> --- > > > >> > jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = > > > >> /etc/jspwiki/attachments > > > >> 605c605 > > > >> < #jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/groupdatabase.xml > > > >> --- > > > >> > jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/groupdatabase.xml > > > >> 626c626 > > > >> < #jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/userdatabase.xml > > > >> --- > > > >> > jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/userdatabase.xml > > > >> 885c885 > > > >> < log4j.appender.FileLog.File = jspwiki.log > > > >> --- > > > >> > log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /var/log/jspwiki/jspwiki.log > > > >> > > > >> and tried deploying it to various places > > > >> ({/var/lib,/usr/share}/tomcat8, /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki). > > > >> > > > >> All to no avail. > > > >> > > > >> What else can I try? > > > >> > > > >> (I'm kind of a Rip van Winkle Java web app developer -- the last > time > > > >> I touched this technology stack was more than ten years ago, and > that > > > >> was on JBoss, all of which I've forgotten except the pain.) > > > >> > > > >> Thanks. > > > >> > > > >> John. > > > >> > > > > > > > > -- > > > > ------------------------- > > > > > > > > _RICK BROCKMAN_ > > > > > > > > _28 LANCASTER ST._ > > > > > > > > _CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320_ > > > > > > > > _607 434-4746_ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Col > > > > > >
