Tomcat version?
Installed from tomcat.apache.org or a third-party repackaged version?
If repackaged, look at the docs - are you running under a security manager?
- Peter
2009/11/3 noobie45 <philip.geo...@gmail.com>
>
> I have an application whose class files are in
> /usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/WEB-INF/classes
>
> It uses the following line to write a file called java.php:
> FileOutputStream fout = new FileOutputStream
> ("/usr/local/tomcat/webapps/ROOT/java.php", true);
>
> It does this perfectly.
>
> What I want is to write this file to a directory outside the tomcat
> directory. e.g. to /var/www/newdir
>
> In Tomcat under Windows I have no problem doing this. Tomcat is installed
> in
> F: and I can write to my apache directory c:\Apache2\htdocs by putting this
> file path in the above code line.
>
> But Tomcat under Linux does not allow me to do this, apparently for
> security
> reasons. But security does not really matter for me because this
> application
> won't be open. How do I read and write files outside the home directory?
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