I just realised (after re-reading this away from my office) that you didn't mean ./webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/lib/ but rather ./tomcat7/lib/. I'm not familiar with Apache Roller's approach, but in a number of the environments I know of (i.e., that either we manage or have been involved in) we generally don't have permissions on the ./tomcat7/lib/ directory or anything outside of ./webapps/ and may not be permitted to do app-level customisations in that directory.
Altering the Tomcat tree outside of the ./webapp/ directory (where app developers get to install their software) seems a strange choice. Yes, for those who have root control over their servers there'll be no permissions issue, but putting application-level configuration in ./tomcat7/lib/ (rather than say, ./tomcat7/conf/) is going to raise a few eyebrows. So while I don't have a vote I'd vote a -1 on this decision and on the difficulties it will create in the upcoming Change Requests we'll be making. The old approach of jspwiki.properties in the ./webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/ directory is for us a much-preferred way of setting web application properties. I know how difficult it is to convince people to change things but this is certainly one thing I would change (and may have to in order to install JSPWiki where permissions don't permit otherwise -- or go to the trouble of hand-modifying the war file, which is what we've been doing for the past few months, not realising this was not a bug or pilot error, but the new design). Ichiro On Mon, Dec 23, 2013 at 12:19 AM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > We made a change a few months back to Apache Roller-style configuration, > you should be leaving the ini/jspwiki.properties file alone and instead > place a jspwiki-custom.properties file in Tomcat's "lib" folder, containing > just the values you're choosing to override from that default file. The > jspwiki-custom.properties file *could* contain the entire > jspwiki.properties file but really only needs to contain your overrides -- > the default ini/ file will be used for any value you don't declare in your > custom properties file. > > I'm assume you're referring to your replacement file when you mention > WEB-INF/jspwiki.properties file, I I believe you can also place the > jspwiki-custom.properties file there (actually, just need to rename your > jspwiki.properties override to this new name), but the new design allows > you to leave the WAR alone by using the Tomcat "lib" folder instead, and > you can keep updating/replacing the WAR without needing to re-insert your > custom file each time. > > Glen > > On 12/22/2013 04:42 AM, Ichiro Furusato wrote: > >> Hi, >> >> Just a note regarding my experience installing the new version, which >> might >> be pilot error. >> I don't get a vote but this experience might suggest a problem with the >> release, dunno. >> >> After building the war I moved its content to my tomcat webapps directory >> but found from >> the error logs that JSPWiki was prioritising the ./ini/jspwiki.properties >> in the jar file over the >> one on the file system at WEB-INF/jspwiki.properties. The solution was to >> overwrite the >> one in the jar file with my customised version, everything now works fine. >> >> But that prioritisation seems somehow wrong. Anyone else notice this, or >> am >> I simply doing >> something wrong? [must be hundreds of times I've done an installation but >> it's late and I'm >> tired and I may be overlooking something obvious...] >> >> Cheers, >> >> Ichiro >> >> >> On Sat, Dec 21, 2013 at 12:02 PM, Juan Pablo Santos Rodríguez < >> juanpablo.san...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> This is a release vote for Apache JSPWiki, version 2.10.0. The vote will >>> be >>> open for at least 72 hours from now. >>> >>> It fixes the following issues: >>> >>> https://issues.apache.org/jira/secure/ReleaseNote.jspa? >>> projectId=12310732&version=12323941 >>> >>> Note that we are voting upon the source (tag), binaries are provided for >>> convenience. >>> >>> Everybody is encouraged to vote. >>> >>> Source and binary files: >>> http://people.apache.org/~juanpablo/releases/2.10.0-rc1 >>> >>> The tag to be voted upon: >>> http://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/jspwiki/tags/jspwiki_2_10_0_rc1 >>> >>> JSPWiki's KEYS file containing PGP keys we use to sign the release: >>> http://www.apache.org/dist/jspwiki/KEYS >>> >>> *** Please download, test and vote: >>> >>> [ ] +1 Approve the release >>> [ ] 0 Don't mind >>> [ ] -1 Disapprove the release (please provide specific comments) >>> >>> >>> br, >>> juan pablo >>> >>> >
