On 07/22/2016 08:51 PM, Markus Koschany wrote: > I think one issue might be that CATALINA_HOME is in /usr/share/tomcat8 > by default and CATALINA_BASE is in /var/lib/tomcat8. This is a little > confusing and I wonder if both should point to /var/lib/tomcat8.
I don't think we can do that, because we want to separate the read-only part of Tomcat (the tomcat libraries and the shell scripts, i.e. CATALINA_HOME under /usr/share) from the writeable part (user libraries, webapps, JSP cache, i.e. CATALINA_BASE under /var/lib). > In any case it would have been useful to know more about the Netbeans > plugin in question. Which one is exactly? Without this information I > can't reproduce the issue and I'm not even sure if this is a bug in > Tomcat 8 or one of Netbeans' external plugins. More information is required. I don't use Netbeans but I tried IntelliJ IDEA 14 on Jessie with the tomcat8 package. When configuring the application server in the IDE the CATALINA_HOME path is requested, and optionally the path to CATALINA_BASE. Setting CATALINA_HOME to /usr/share/tomcat8 isn't enough as it doesn't contain the conf directory, and setting CATALINA_BASE to /var/lib/tomcat8 is necessary. Side note: when deploying an application to Tomcat from IntelliJ the CATALINA_BASE files are copied to another directory (~/.IntelliJIdea14/system/tomcat/<webappname>/). This copy failed because /etc/tomcat8/tomcat-users.xml is read protected by default. I had to remove it to start the webapp from IntelliJ. I also tried configuring Tomcat in IntelliJ after adding a conf symlink in /usr/share/tomcat8, and this time setting CATALINA_BASE wasn't required. So regardless of the behavior of the Netbeans plugin I think it's worth adding the conf symlink since it slightly simplifies the configuration in IntelliJ. Emmanuel Bourg
