Thanks Daniel.. That clue helped... tomcat was running as a different user and I tried to start using root.
On Tue, May 6, 2014 at 7:38 PM, Daniel Mikusa <dmik...@gopivotal.com> wrote: > On May 6, 2014, at 9:25 AM, Rahul R <rahul.ra...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi > > > > I have put ROOT.war under webapps folder of tomcat. When I start the > > instance I am getting the below error on catalina.out. > > > > INFO: Deploying web application archive > /opt/tomcat-proxy/webapps/ROOT.war > > May 06, 2014 6:28:22 PM org.apache.catalina.startup.ContextConfig > > beforeStart > > SEVERE: Exception fixing docBase for context [/ROOT] > > java.io.IOException: Unable to create the directory > > [/opt/tomcat-proxy/webapps/ROOT] > > > > I am not sure why this is happening. Checked the permissions on webapps > > folder as well as the war file. Its 755. > > > > P.S: I am able to use jar to unpack it manually under webapps. > > What about the owner of webapps? Is that the same as the user you’re > using to run Tomcat? Can that user extract the files? > > Dan > > > > > Any help would be much appreciated. > > > > > > -- > > Thanks, > > Regards, > > Rahul R > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > > -- Thanks, Regards, Rahul R .~. /V\ // \\ /( )\ ^`~'^ Mob: 09008030921
