Bug#960931: tomcat9 cannot deploy war files (applications) in sub-directories of his directory catalina_home directory (/var/lib/tomcat9) when tomcat9 is in virtualhost mode

[Mathieu HETRU]

Package: tomcat9

Version: 9.0.31-1~deb10u1

Hello,

I use Jenkins application with the tomcat manager in order to deploy war 
files (applications) on Tomcat9.

My tomcat9 is configured in virtualhost mode (related to the official 
tomcat9 virtualhost documentation : 
https://tomcat.apache.org/tomcat-9.0-doc/virtual-hosting-howto.html).

So each virtualhost in server.xml got one webapps directory under 
catalina_home (/var/lib/tomcat9).

But tomcat9 cannot deploy war files (applications) because the unix user 
"tomcat" cannot have access read-write under /var/lib/tomcat9.

I have found the solution with adding this line :

ReadWritePaths=/var/lib/tomcat9/

under this line

ReadWritePaths=/etc/tomcat9/Catalina/

in the systemctl file service of tomcat9 
/usr/lib/systemd/system/tomcat9.service

and systemctl daemon-reload

But, when an update of debian occured on tomcat9 package, i lost my 
modification.

Can you fix this bug?

Thanks.

Mathieu HETRU

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