On 01/06/2016 15:30, Fabrizio Cucci wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> I was playing with embedded Tomcat 8.0.33 and I noticed something
> unexpected.
>
> If I create my embedded Tomcat like this:
>
> Tomcat tomcat = new Tomcat();
> tomcat.setPort(8080);
> tomcat.setBaseDir("myBaseDir");
>
> start the server and then try to programmatically deploy a webapp like this:
>
> tomcat.addWebapp(tomcat.getHost(), "/foo", "<absolute path to foo.war>");
>
> I get:
>
> java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory
> [/my-path/myBaseDir/webapps/foo]
> at org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar.expand(ExpandWar.java:115)
> ~[tomcat-embed-core-8.0.33.jar!/:8.0.33]
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.fixDocBase(ContextConfig.java:619)
> [tomcat-embed-core-8.0.33.jar!/:8.0.33]
> at
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig.beforeStart(ContextConfig.java:752)
> [tomcat-embed-core-8.0.33.jar!/:8.0.33]
> ...
>
> If I programmatically create the folder "webapps" in my baseDir after
> starting tomcat but before deploying the webapp everything works fine.
>
> So I checked the line of code which throws the exception in the class
> org.apache.catalina.startup.ExpandWar:
>
> [line 113] // Create the new document base directory
> [line 114] if(!docBase.mkdir() && !docBase.isDirectory()) {
> [line 115] throw new IOException(sm.getString("expandWar.createFailed",
> docBase));
> [line 116] }
>
> and I guess if the "mkdirs" method was used instead of "mkdir" everything
> would work.
>
> The questions are:
> - is it done on purpose? (not creating the webapps folder within the
> baseDir when needed e.g. when an application is programmatically deployed)
Yes.
> - if yes, what is the reason beyond this technical decision?
The user is expected to define a valid directory for a Host's appBase.
Mark
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