Tomcat does not follow links in applications by default, you have to explicitly tell it to.
The Debian package integrate XWiki with Tomcat by putting an xwiki.xml file in /etc/tomcat<version>/Catalina/localhost/ which contain the following: (1) for Tomcat 8 and (2) for Tomcat 7. (1) https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/master/xwiki-enterprise-installers/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian-tomcat/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian-tomcat8-common/src/deb/resources/etc/xwiki/xwiki-tomcat8.xml (2) https://github.com/xwiki/xwiki-enterprise/blob/master/xwiki-enterprise-installers/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian-tomcat/xwiki-enterprise-installer-debian-tomcat7-common/src/deb/resources/etc/xwiki/xwiki-tomcat7.xml On Wed, Dec 7, 2016 at 11:05 AM, Stefan Helmerichs <s...@form-solutions.de> wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to create a docker container (based on tomcat:jre8) for > xwiki which keeps configuration and skins in volumes. So far, I have > made enough > progress that the xwiki is being deployes and the configuration > is accepted. My skins, however, are not. > > I am using /var/local/xwiki/ as environment.PermanentDirectory > and I have 3 extras stored in there - > xwiki.cfg, xwiki.properties and a customSkin-directory. > > I already tried to create symlinks in the container, pointing > to the files at the mount point, this was not working as the > properties file was simply ignored and the symlink was not followed. > > I understood this concerning the properties file, I do not quite > understand why the cfg seems to be ignored as well (since several > template files were not loaded at all). So I had a workaround for this. > > My problem is, that the symlink to the custom skin directory is present, > working, and it SHOULD work, but whenever I add ?skin=mySkin to the > current page URL (and the folder is named mySkin), my browser displays > the flamingo skin. > > Is there another place, or another way, to keep the skins persisted, in > a volume to be mounted on docker? > > Thanks in advance > -- Thomas Mortagne
