I have no idea where to go at this point. So from a "stock" Apache tomcat7 installation Apache JSPWIKI no longer will run.
You mention putting a log4j.properties file in tomcat's webapps/JSPWiki/WEB-INF/classes directory. What should be contained in this file? Thanks for the help. -- -jim Jim Willeke On Sun, May 18, 2014 at 12:58 PM, Harry Metske <harry.met...@gmail.com> wrote: > I think neither of these two is the case. > The issue here is that you have a (tomcat) environment where you are not > allowed to write to tomcat's lib directory, or you don't want configuration > in that directory because you don't want these configs to apply to other > (JSPWiki) applications running in the same tomcat. > When you startup a vanilla JSPWiki it will try to log to jspwiki.log in the > current directory, so depending on from where you start it, you will get > the logfile or not. If the logfile cannot be created however, JSPWiki will > still work (though you get an ugly stacktrace to stdout from log4j). > > Maybe there is one option left in this case, and that is putting a > log4j.properties file in tomcat's webapps/JSPWiki/WEB-INF/classes > directory. > > regards, > Harry > > > > On 18 May 2014 17:42, Florian Holeczek <flor...@holeczek.de> wrote: > > > Hi there, > > > > two things come to my mind regarding the "standard" Tomcat coming with a > > Linux distribution: > > > > * Is this Tomcat running with a security manager enabled? JSPWiki isn't > > running under a security manager (i.e. without further configuration). > > * Are advanced security modules like SELinux or AppArmor enabled in these > > environments? If so, it may be that the Tomcat instance needs some > further > > configuration, especially regarding access to additional files like > > jspwiki.log. > > > > Regards > > Florian > > >