Question

I’ve tried

sudo chmod +rwx webapps

and

sudo chmod +rwx -R webapps

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but I’m still not being able to create a new folder inside webapps. Why and what should be done?

Answer 1

I find the for development and test purposes a freshly untarred tomcat in ~/Tools/tomcat folder works best. Everything is in the standard layout, eclipse, intellij, netbeans et al can find what they want to deploy to the server and hook the debugger in. All files have you ownership/permission so you are not crossing any security lines.

The debian provided tomcat is well integrated in the system and pretty tightly secured with the config files where a Linux admin expects them. This is fine for deployment but a pain during development. When preparing to deploy, better immediately create a debian package with a proper rules file to put everything in the right spot, so you only need to figure it out once.