2012/1/17 Kees Jan Koster <kjkos...@gmail.com>: > On 17 jan. 2012, at 11:11, André Warnier <a...@ice-sa.com> wrote: > >> Kees Jan Koster wrote: >>> Dear all, >>>> Now about whether this is a bug in Tomcat or its documentation : I am >>>> fairly sure that not long ago, I saw a strong warning somewhere in the >>>> on-line Tomcat documentation, about not using spaces in pathnames >>>> somewhere, as it was not supported by some component. >>> Perhaps the Tomcat start script can issue a warning in case spaces are >>> found in the path? >> You know, I think that this is a lost battle. The habit is by now so >> entrenched that there is probably nothing anyone can do by now to extirpate >> this, other than designing a new OS where this is forbidden. And you'd >> still have to deal with funny imported foreign file names and paths. >> But I keep on reacting to issues to do with withespace in pathnames, just >> because I believe that there is not one programmer alive in the whole world, >> who has not had some problem with this at some point. >> So if you can save yourself the trouble, by installing Tomcat in some >> pathname which makes sense and is not a pain to type and forget to quote >> somewhere, you'll always do yourself a favor in the end. >> >> P.S. In our current globalised world, similar issues exist with filenames >> containing characters that can perhaps be displayed everywhere, but not >> /typed/ on >> > > Agreed on the lost battle part. My suggestion is merely to help people who > never experienced path issues like this before. It gives them a place to > start looking when tomcat does not work for them. > > That is why I suggest to issue a warning and not rewrite the OS. >
Installing into "Program Files" is per se flawed starting with Microsoft's Vista. There are several reported problems in http://wiki.apache.org/tomcat/FAQ/Windows I mean, it is good place for CATALINA_HOME, but bad one for CATALINA_BASE. It is good if you are just using Tomcat installed there with Eclipse IDE (which creates its own CATALINA_BASE), but bad if you are really going to run Tomcat from there. Best regards, Konstantin Kolinko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
