Bug#431704: Policy file 50user.policy uses ${catalina.home}/webapps/ instead of ${catalina.base}/webapps/

[Emmanuel Rodriguez Santiago]

Package: tomcat5.5

The policy file /etc/tomcat5.5/policy.d/50user.policy includes some 
sample directives that can be used to configure additional permissions 
for individual webapps. All the examples that refer to the folder 
'webapps' use the variable ${catalina.home} instead of ${catalina.base}. 
The problem is that the ${catalina.home} point to a folder that doesn't 
include the webapps folder.

Here's the value of each variable:
catalina.base=/var/lib/tomcat5.5
catalina.home=/usr/share/tomcat5.5

Here's the contents of the folders:
$ ls /var/lib/tomcat5.5
conf  logs  shared  temp  webapps  work

$ ls /usr/share/tomcat5.5
bin  common  conf  doc  logs  server  shared  temp  work


As you can see the location ${catalina.home}/webapps/ gets translated to 
/usr/share/tomcat5.5/webapps/ which doesn't exist. The right path to use 
is ${catalina.base}/webapps/ which gets translated to 
/var/lib/tomcat5.5/webapps/ which exists.

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Emmanuel Rodriguez
Developer
Hewlett-Packard Slovakia
European IT Operation Center
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