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

[Michael Koch]

On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 01:45:22PM +0200, Emmanuel Rodriguez Santiago wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, for me the webapps dir is in both locations. But I agree that usage
of catalina.home is wrong and irritating in this file. Thanks for
reporting this issue. I will commit a fix to our SVN.


Cheers,
Michael