I have setup Tomcat 8.5 on Server JDK 8u74 on Debian Linux 8. I downloaded
everything from tar.gz/zip files and did not use Debian packages (for all
of it: JDK, Tomcat, JSVC, and JSPWiki). I am using JSVC to run Tomcat as
a daemon using a customized version of the daemon.sh script.
I set the following variables in the daemon.sh script at the top:
JAVA_HOME=/wikis/jdk
CATALINA_HOME=/wikis/apache-tomcat
The tomcat user and tomcat group own all of the files under the /wikis
directory and the permissions are set to 770 on all files/directories under
/wikis (including /wikis). The root user is a member of the tomcat group.
My intention is to create multiple wikis. I found instructions that said
to create a Context XML file under Catalina/localhost rather than changing
the Tomcat server.xml file, so that is what I have done. Below is the
contents of /wikis/apache-tomcat/conf/Catalina/localhost/Test.xml:
<Context path="/Test" docBase="/wikis/JSPWiki/JSPWiki.war">
<Parameter name="jspwiki.propertyfile"
value="/wikis/Test/Test.properties" override="false"/>
</Context>
The output in catalina-daemon.out indicates that it is reading this file.
However, I do not receive an error message whether
/wikis/Test/Test.properties is present or not. I get the following error
message from log4j whether the Test.properties file is present or not:
log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger
(org.apache.wiki.util.PropertyReader).
log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
log4j:WARN See http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/faq.html#noconfig for
more info.
log4j:ERROR setFile(null,true) call failed.
java.io.FileNotFoundException: jspwiki.log (Permission denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open0(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.open(FileOutputStream.java:270)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:213)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:133)
at org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.setFile(FileAppender.java:294)
at
org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender.setFile(RollingFileAppender.java:207)
at
org.apache.log4j.FileAppender.activateOptions(FileAppender.java:165)
at
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.activate(PropertySetter.java:307)
at
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:172)
at
org.apache.log4j.config.PropertySetter.setProperties(PropertySetter.java:104)
at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseAppender(PropertyConfigurator.java:842)
at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.parseCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:768)
at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configureRootCategory(PropertyConfigurator.java:648)
at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.doConfigure(PropertyConfigurator.java:514)
at
org.apache.log4j.PropertyConfigurator.configure(PropertyConfigurator.java:440)
at org.apache.wiki.WikiEngine.initialize(WikiEngine.java:464)
at org.apache.wiki.WikiEngine.<init>(WikiEngine.java:430)
at org.apache.wiki.WikiEngine.getInstance(WikiEngine.java:370)
at
org.apache.wiki.ui.WikiServletFilter.init(WikiServletFilter.java:82)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.initFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:279)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.getFilter(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:260)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterConfig.<init>(ApplicationFilterConfig.java:105)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.filterStart(StandardContext.java:4572)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5215)
at
org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChildInternal(ContainerBase.java:752)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.addChild(ContainerBase.java:728)
at
org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHost.addChild(StandardHost.java:734)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor(HostConfig.java:596)
at
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig$DeployDescriptor.run(HostConfig.java:1805)
at
java.util.concurrent.Executors$RunnableAdapter.call(Executors.java:511)
at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:266)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142)
at
java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)
05-Jan-2017 16:21:33.690 INFO [localhost-startStop-1]
org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig.deployDescriptor Deployment of
configuration descriptor
/wikis/apache-tomcat-8.5.9/conf/Catalina/localhost/Test.xml has finished in
2,236 ms
The above error suggests that my Test.properties file is being ignored
entirely. The JSPWiki.war file is being decompressed into the Tomcat
webapps directory as /Test as I would expect. When I view it from a
browser, if I go to https://mydomain.com/Test, an incorrectly rendered
JSPWiki page appears. If I put my cursor over the links in the page, it
show https://mydomain.com/JSPWiki in the URLs instead of
https://mydomain.com/Test. I have placed the JSPWiki wikipages in the
Pages directory as instructed. No log file is being written to the
location indicates in my Test.properties file. Below are the contents of
my Test.properties file:
jspwiki.applicationName = Test
jspwiki.baseURL=https://mydomain.com/Test/
jspwiki.pageProvider = FileSystemProvider
jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /wikis/Test/Pages
jspwiki.workDir = /wikis/Test/Work
jspwiki.attachmentProvider = BasicAttachmentProvider
jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = /wikis/Test/Pages
jspwiki.usePageCache = true
jspwiki.encoding = UTF-8
jspwiki.use.external.logconfig = false
jspwiki.usePageCache = true
log4j.appender.FileLog = org.apache.log4j.RollingFileAppender
log4j.appender.FileLog.MaxFileSize = 10MB
log4j.appender.FileLog.MaxBackupIndex = 14
log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /wikis/Test/Logs/Test-jspwiki.log
log4j.appender.FileLog.layout = org.apache.log4j.PatternLayout
log4j.appender.FileLog.layout.ConversionPattern=%d [%t] %p %c %x - %m%n
I have not tried placing a jspwiki_custom.properties file in the WEB-INF of
each wiki or modifying the default jspwiki.properties file in the embedded
jar in the JSPWiki.war file. I would prefer to avoid changing the war file
to make upgrading easier. I have not been able to find an explanation for
why this approach isn’t working. I am assuming that the Parameter I am
setting the context is either not formatted correctly or perhaps is no
longer supported by the version of JSPWiki that I am using. I would
appreciate any assistance with setting up JSPWiki in a clean and
maintainable manner for a multiple wikis use case. I have been using
JSPWiki for more than 10 years and I am trying to move it from an old
server to a new server as it is running a very old version of JSPWiki. I
also intend to setup Tomcat LDAPS authentication and configure JSPWiki to
use Tomcat for authentication/authorization, but that is a next step.
My first obstacle is how to get multiple JSPWiki instances to recognize a
custom configuration file for each wiki instance. Any thoughts?
*Shawn Campbell '99*
Systems Analyst
Information Technology Offices
Phone: 330.471.8501
Fax: 330.471.8302
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