I ran into this bug today on Ubuntu Server 14.04.
I could be wrong, but I'm not sure this is an issue of missing symbolic
links, but rather a minor misconfiguration of catalina.properties on
Ubuntu 14.04. Specifically, the "server.loader" and "shared.loader"
settings are referencing CATALINA_HOME instead of CATALINA_BASE.
So, for example, on Ubuntu 12.04, the default
/var/lib/tomcat7/conf/catalina.properties sets these properties as the
following:
server.loader=/var/lib/tomcat7/server/classes,/var/lib/tomcat7/server/*.jar
shared.loader=/var/lib/tomcat7/shared/classes,/var/lib/tomcat7/shared/*.jar
However, on Ubuntu 14.04, the hardcoded "/var/lib/tomcat7/" paths have
been replaced with "${catalina.home}", so it looks like this:
server.loader=${catalina.home}/server/classes,${catalina.home}/server/*.jar
shared.loader=${catalina.home}/shared/classes,${catalina.home}/shared/*.jar
Unfortunately, "${catalina.home}" translates to "/usr/share/tomcat7"...
which is not the proper setting. As we know, these directories don't
exist under "/usr/share/tomcat7" (CATALINA_HOME)
The correct setting should be replacing those with ${catalina.base}, as
all the referenced directories do exist under "/var/lib/tomcat7"
(CATALINA_BASE). So, the correct settings seem to be:
server.loader=${catalina.base}/server/classes,${catalina.base}/server/*.jar
shared.loader=${catalina.base}/shared/classes,${catalina.base}/shared/*.jar
This same misconfiguration existing in both of these catalina.properties files:
* /var/lib/tomcat7/conf/catalina.properties
* /usr/share/tomcat7/skel/conf/catalina.properties (installed by the
tomcat7-user package)
Obviously, creating the symbolic links from these directories in
/var/lib/tomcat7/ to /usr/share/tomcat7/ would also be a possible
solution. But, it's different than how things were setup in Ubuntu
12.04, when the configurations in catalina.properties were just using
CATALINA_BASE directly.
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tomcat7 installer fails to create symbolic links
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