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Konstantin,
On 6/30/18 11:49 AM, Konstantin Kolinko wrote:
> 2018-06-30 12:55 GMT+03:00 Carl-Henrik Tjärnlund
> <kalle.tjarnl...@gmail.com>:
>> Hi! I'm in the process of upgrading from tomcat 8 to 9 and was
>> running into a probelm with velocity not beeing able to create
>> the default log file, ./velocity.log and after some
>> troubleshooting it seems it is trying to create it in the root of
>> the file system instead of the current working directory, which i
>> thought would be CATALINA_BASE.
>>
>> I just did some test and logging in the webapp:
>>
>> log.info("Working path: " + new File(".").getAbsolutePath());
>>
>> would report "Working path: /. And I could do a workaround by
>> creating /velocity.log manually and give the tomcat9 user
>> ownership.
>
> Or you could do System.getProperty("user.dir").
Or put -Duser.dir=[whatever] in CATALINA_BASE/bin/setenv.sh
> Tomcat does not care what the current working directory is when
> you launch it. All it cares is the value of system properties
> "catalina.home" and "catalina.base".
>
> (The well known environment variables CATALINA_HOME, CATALINA_BASE
> are used by catalina.sh/catalina.bat scripts to set those system
> properties when launching Java process for Tomcat).
+1
Moreover, Tomcat does not alter the CWD from whatever process launched i
t.
> If your logging configuration supports substitution of environment
> variables, use one of those variables explicitly, e.g. as
> "${catalina.base}/logs" (see the default conf/logging.properties
> in Tomcat for an example).
This would be best. Relying on the CWD is a bad practice that will
lead to these kinds of problems.
- -chris
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