On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 10:53 AM, Robert Buckley <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > set-up > ubuntu 10.04 > tomcat6 > java-6-sun > > I am having the following problem. As my geoserver is running in tomcat6 all > files in the webapps folder are either owned by tomcat6 or root. I can´t > edit any file in the www folder of the geoserver (unless I go into putty and > commandline coding is not for me!) > > If I "sudo chown -R" all the files inside webapps/geoserver will it destroy > how geoserver runs inside tomcat6? >
sudo vi file.html will work too. But your best bet will be to move the data folder outside the tomcat directory structure and set the permissions on that folder correctly. See http://docs.geoserver.org/latest/en/user/datadirectory/data-dir-setting.html for details Ian -- Ian Turton ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ Geoserver-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/geoserver-users
