Also: success, of sorts. Got my main page up, edited it successfully. There's something about the work dir not being writable, but from the O/S perspective, it is. More catalina.policy magic?
Haven't checked the log file yet, but it's probably still wrong. More later. John. On Tue, Jan 10, 2017 at 10:05 PM, John Lusk <johnlu...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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/03catali >> na.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 <(607)%20434-4746>_ >> > > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > -- >> > > Col >> > > >> > >> > >
