-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 Paul,
On 8/31/20 05:36, Paul wrote: > Hello, > > When running Tomcat in a Docker container as non-root, I'm getting > an error entry in the logs: > > Unable to create directory for deployment: > [/usr/local/tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost] I traced this down to > the aforementioned directory not being there when Tomcat gets > launched and the user running Tomcat does not having the > permissions to create the directory. > > I also traced where this error message is coming from and its due > to the createDirs attribute on the host declaration in server.xml > not being set to false. The docs for the createDirs property states > that if its set to true (the default) it'll attempt to create some > directories, log an error when it fails, but the failure wont stop > the startup of Tomcat. > > But what I cannot find anywhere is why those directories are > created in the first place and what the ramifications are of them > not being created when createDirs is set to false. You are deploying a WAR file, right? If you don't set createDirs="true" then Tomcat will not be able to unpack WAR files for you. > This question is for Tomcat docker images in general (in order to > determine whether generic Tomcat Docker images should do something > different to prevent these Errors in the logs), in my specific > scenario however I'm running one webapp: an exploded WAR in the > webapps/ROOT directory, which comes with its on context.xml in > /webapps/ROOT/META-INF/context.xml If webapps/ already exists, what directory is Tomcat trying to create? conf/[engine]/[host]? Can you arrange for conf/[engine]/[host] (usually conf/Catalina/localhost) to exist so that the setting for createDirs doesn't matter? - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - https://www.enigmail.net/ iQIzBAEBCAAdFiEEMmKgYcQvxMe7tcJcHPApP6U8pFgFAl9NFjoACgkQHPApP6U8 pFi/7xAAs6Rg39EWDFLkL2DutF4sGu6MeB9lwaRxq/OmsubS5X44+w+kFGha05fx wHYFe6vhl6WL+UEIo/bja+JRgQCTCDTYf6fMmPYvJ6am/b2Ew0GmtjQlU6eimH2y uGM/sfT0No+FYRpAxW9mbsh86H6rYMBNvj+dNWeusSkS/3uX2cELm/WwDKnOQb9I bX5ZxgsA2DlXP37Zn+Q3G1bjP71Wbx1C/pbiXCYL3tGq3RLalBY3Y++GoTjAtEkX 4/jBNqLGBwgmFKQY0pfEc9iNCgwbgMh85zAvvUkzIxt+oKxYQLWPDwjs5Krfu2ZK /pUIFey33rqAO9Vo2iuyX8W03kU0hhAK0PIXimPW8H3848o4Qe+5mJt46jrcpAb7 DFGZUiwS7plD9UrTZpY4UGfWtwAx1GwD9Db/l50Ru32mVtbYgvfzYKqKfZKe7hbI gOUjIu+5jk0cgUE8d+bK2kiTnX5CQJNHT2N44y1/HLRBtuS7RX5e7yLuQfLZ6yeI YpmQAr5oxccQ4XSbL9XQMtckG46JqSL1GwbejMT4n0pMzj7zI8J2Eeh3hCsov5bL trDml0upYcWFoLNUJhFn+Lo1a0ujqOlH2iKS0xg+RU37t0mH0U8/ys77ZS12cnk8 bbwztsxUVPHKc2VjKOMhn47v+cmeGhAP6zeB2ZZ7O9fv3Si9xOQ= =g5QV -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
