Question

I’m running Tomcat 6 on Ubuntu.
I have webapps stored outside the webapps folder of tomcat6, I used to symlink them and it worked like a charm.

For instance, in /var/lib/tomcat6/webapps/, I have a symlink ‘webapp1’ pointing to ~/webapp1, which has the proper content for a webapp.
It works fine, webapp1 is up and running in the blink of an eye.

Now if I create another link to /media/someotherdisk/webapp2, it doesn’t work at all.
webapp2 has the required content to be detected, it has the same access rights as webapp1, as well for the content itself. I checked all I could think of and I don’t understand the difference for Tomcat.

So why is it acting this way? And how can I make it to work the same as for ‘webapp1’?

Answer 1

In the end it was a simple permission problem.

/media/someotherdisk/webapp2/ was alright (+rx for anyone) but /media/someotherdisk/ had no permission set except for the its owner.

I dont know why it was this way for this partition in particular and not for the other mounted partitions, but changing permissions solved my problem.