I have installed Tomcat 6, and the problem(s) went away. Thanks for the time and for the help, Chuck.
Victor. vivri wrote: > > Thanks for the quick reply, Chuck. > > As a quick hack, I moved the records.txt file to my home directory > (/root/records.txt) and changed the path in my java code as well. Then I > restarted Tomcat (just to be sure), cleared the cache of my browser and > tried again - only to find the results unchanged. Did I not understand > what you meant, or is it something else? > > An unrelated, but curiously unsettling phenomenon is that on my dev > machine, if I quit Tomcat (either by running "catalina.sh stop" or > "shutdown.sh"), then obviously the page fails to load. On the deployment > machine, on the other hand, I am able to load the page while Tomcat isn't > running, and even make changes to the website and see them on a browser. I > can only guess that this isn't the expected normal behavior... perhaps I > should reinstall Tomcat? (And upgrade to the newest version, as you've > recommended.) > > > Victor. > > > > > n828cl wrote: >> >>> From: vivri [mailto:victor.i...@gmail.com] >>> Subject: Tomcat Java permission issue -- cannot write to file from a >>> webapp. >>> >>> My Apache Tomcat version is 5.5, installed on Ubuntu 8.04 through the >>> aptitude package manager. >> >> If you're just starting with Tomcat, then start with the current version >> - 6.0.26. >> >>> I am attempting to log survey responses in a file called "records.txt", >>> which I keep in the directory of my webapp >> >> This is a very bad idea. It's not quite forbidden by the servlet spec, >> but the container (Tomcat) is not required to provide a webapp with *any* >> access to the underlying file system (if there is one), other than a >> scratch area. You should be treating the deployment space of the webapp >> as read-only, and locate this writable file somewhere outside of the >> Tomcat directory space. The location can be specified via Java system >> property, an environment variable, or environment or parameter entries in >> the webapp deployment descriptor. >> >> - Chuck >> >> >> THIS COMMUNICATION MAY CONTAIN CONFIDENTIAL AND/OR OTHERWISE PROPRIETARY >> MATERIAL and is thus for use only by the intended recipient. If you >> received this in error, please contact the sender and delete the e-mail >> and its attachments from all computers. >> >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org >> >> >> > > -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Tomcat-Java-permission-issue----cannot-write-to-file-from-a-webapp.-tp27871316p27873616.html Sent from the Tomcat - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
