Tomcat 8 uses tomcat/lib instead of tomcat/common/ you'll need to adjust your script.
John Larsen On Tue, Mar 12, 2019 at 7:43 AM Joel Griffith <jgrif...@nd.edu> wrote: > I'm upgrading a webapp server from Tomcat 7 to Tomcat 8 on Ubuntu 16.04. > At installation, Tomcat 7 creates a directory `/var/lib/tomcat7/common/`. > When Tomcat 8 is installed, however, the `/var/lib/tomcat8/` directory it > creates does not include a `common/` directory, and the deployment script > complains that it isn't there. > > build.xml:129: /var/lib/tomcat8/common/lib does not exist. > > I've been searching for a day and have found exactly zero documentation on > this, including on the official 8.0 migration guide ( > https://tomcat.apache.org/migration-8.html). > > What is the `/var/lib/tomcat7/common/` directory for, and why does Tomcat 8 > not have one? >