Ok, so I added the following to my /etc/tomcat8/policy.d/03catalina.policy
file:
grant codeBase "file:${catalina.base}/webapps/wiki/-" {
permission java.io.FilePermission "file:/usr/share/jspwiki-files/-",
"read, write";
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};
which (a) doesn't seem to have caused any disasters (yay), but (b) hasn't
done anything nice (boo). I did a /etc/init.d/tomcat8 restart. The edits
appear in /var/cache/tomcat8/catalina.policy, so I guess that's good.
Still getting a permission error on jspwiki.log. Golly day, it sure would
be nice if I had a complete pathname to work with on this one. Not juse
"jspwiki.log".
I have chowned various directories to tomcat8:tomcat8, which is the userid
the process runs under.
Next step: where the heck do I put the customized properties file, what do
I name it? Possibilities are:
- jspwiki.properties
- jspwiki-custom.properties
- wiki.properties
- wiki-custom.properties
Maginc incantation, anyone? (Plus path, would be nice.)
(Thanks.)
John.
On Mon, Jan 9, 2017 at 3:31 AM, Col Willis <col.wil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I had to do something funky with the catalina.policy file to get jspwiki
> working in tomcat8 (apt-get installed)
>
> grant codeBase "file:/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/-" {
> // !!change the directory to the location you want to locate your
> wiki files!!
> permission java.io.FilePermission
> "file:/usr/share/tomcat8/jspwiki-files/-", "read, write";
>
> // just allow the entire codebase permissions to do what it needs.
> permission java.security.AllPermission;
> };
>
> // this file does not exist, but it does solve a problem with
> exceptions being thrown in syslog
> grant codeBase "file:${catalina.home}/bin/tomcat-juli.jar" {
> permission java.io.FilePermission
> "/var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki/WEB-INF/classes/logging.properties",
> "read";
> };
>
>
> On 9 January 2017 at 00:13, Rick Brockman <r...@richardbrockman.info>
> wrote:
>
> > Like you John I'm a Rip van Winkle of bygone computer days. When I
> > installed Tomcat using apt-get I ran into problems and instead of
> knocking
> > my head against the sleep pillow, I downloaded tomcat from the web and
> its
> > working...
> >
> > On 2017-01-08 16:10, John Lusk wrote:
> >
> >> Ok, friends. Trying to get JSPWiki set up on a new Amazon EC2 Unbuntu
> >> 16.04 instance I just stood up, and I'm having some trouble. Help?
> >>
> >> I installed Tomcat8 using apt-get, I wound up with:
> >>
> >> /etc/default/tomcat8
> >> /etc/init.d/tomcat8
> >> /etc/tomcat8
> >> Catalina/localhost/{docs,examples,host-manager,manager}.xml
> >> (These have docbase pointing to corresponding subdirs of
> >> /usr/share.)
> >> /usr/share/tomcat8
> >> /var/lib/tomcat8, which has a webapps subdir.
> >>
> >> It all seems to be working fine.
> >>
> >> So, I downloaded jspwiki.war 2.10.2, renamed it to "wiki.war", and
> >> copied it to /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps, where it promptly got unpacked.
> >>
> >> Now, I can see it in my Tomcat app manager, but when I attempt to
> >> start it, I get failures.
> >>
> >> First, I got OutOfMemory errors.
> >>
> >> I assume Tomcat's default -Xmx=128m is way too small, so I bumped it
> >> up to 768m (I've only got a 1GB EC2 instance (t2.micro), so I think
> >> 768m is living dangerously, eh?).
> >>
> >> Now I'm getting errors like
> >>
> >> org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext.log ERROR: Failed to
> >> create
> >> a Wiki engine: JSPWiki: Unable to load and setup properties from
> >> jspwiki.properties. Failed to start. Caused by: Failed to instantiate
> >> class
> >> org.apache.wiki.PageManager; please check log files for better
> >> information.
> >>
> >> (in localhost.2017-01-08.log)
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> java.io.FileNotFoundException: jspwiki.log (Permission denied)
> >>
> >> (in catalina.out)
> >>
> >> and
> >>
> >> INFO [__DEFAULT__]
> >> org.apache.catalina.loader.WebappClassLoaderBase.checkStateF
> >> orResourceLoading
> >> Illegal access: this web application instance has been stopped already.
> >> Could not load [net/sf/ehcache/version.properties].
> >>
> >> (in catalina.2017-01-08.log)
> >>
> >> I grabbed jspwiki.properties with:
> >>
> >> unzip jspwiki-war-2.10.2.jar ini/jspwiki.properties
> >>
> >> and modified it as follows (renaming it jspwiki-custom.properties):
> >>
> >> 51c51
> >> < jspwiki.baseURL=http://localhost:8080/JSPWiki/
> >> ---
> >> > jspwiki.baseURL=http://web.how-hard-can-it-be.com/wiki/
> >> 102c102
> >> < # jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /p/web/www-data/jspwiki/
> >> ---
> >> > jspwiki.fileSystemProvider.pageDir = /etc/jspwiki/pages
> >> 144c144
> >> < # jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir = C:\\Data\\jspwiki
> >> ---
> >> > jspwiki.basicAttachmentProvider.storageDir =
> >> /etc/jspwiki/attachments
> >> 605c605
> >> < #jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/groupdatabase.xml
> >> ---
> >> > jspwiki.xmlGroupDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/groupdatabase.xml
> >> 626c626
> >> < #jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/tomcat/userdatabase.xml
> >> ---
> >> > jspwiki.xmlUserDatabaseFile = /etc/jspwiki/userdatabase.xml
> >> 885c885
> >> < log4j.appender.FileLog.File = jspwiki.log
> >> ---
> >> > log4j.appender.FileLog.File = /var/log/jspwiki/jspwiki.log
> >>
> >> and tried deploying it to various places
> >> ({/var/lib,/usr/share}/tomcat8, /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/wiki).
> >>
> >> All to no avail.
> >>
> >> What else can I try?
> >>
> >> (I'm kind of a Rip van Winkle Java web app developer -- the last time
> >> I touched this technology stack was more than ten years ago, and that
> >> was on JBoss, all of which I've forgotten except the pain.)
> >>
> >> Thanks.
> >>
> >> John.
> >>
> >
> > --
> > -------------------------
> >
> > _RICK BROCKMAN_
> >
> > _28 LANCASTER ST._
> >
> > _CHERRY VALLEY, NY 13320_
> >
> > _607 434-4746_
> >
>
>
>
> --
> Col
>
