How get tomcat6 configured?

[Murray Eisenberg]

I apologize: the problem with the setenv CATALINA_BASE command was a typo: I put it into a file named /etc/luanchd.conf instead of /etc/launchd.conf.

I fixed that. And now CATALINA_BASE is seen in the system environment.

But still, running

  sudo /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh

doesn't remove the other errors being sent by conf_setup.sh.

I get the same errors even if I cd to /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin and then run:  sudo ./startup.sh

So what's wrong with the tomcat6 configuration?

In particular, might there be some permissions issue? I have:

cd /opt/local/share/java

ls -l tomcat6
total 0
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  admin  680 Mar  4 13:15 bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 root  admin  102 Sep 19 10:09 common
drwxr-xr-x  17 _www  _www   578 Mar  4 14:49 conf
drwxr-xr-x  17 root  admin  578 Sep 19 10:09 lib
drwxr-xr-x   3 _www  _www   102 Sep 19 10:09 logs
drwxr-xr-x   6 root  admin  204 Sep 19 10:09 shared
drwxr-xr-x   3 _www  _www   102 Sep 19 10:09 temp
drwxr-xr-x   9 _www  _www   306 Mar  4 15:09 webapps
drwxr-xr-x   3 _www  _www   102 Sep 19 10:09 work

ls -l tomcat6/conf
total 360
-rw-r--r--  1 root  _www  10636 Feb 10 17:48 catalina.policy
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www  10636 Sep 19 10:09 catalina.policy.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root  _www   3713 Feb 10 17:48 catalina.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www   3713 Sep 19 10:09 catalina.properties.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www   1395 Sep 19 10:09 context.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www   3290 Sep 19 10:09 logging.properties
-rw-r--r--  1 root  _www   6616 Feb 10 17:49 server.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www   6616 Sep 19 10:09 server.xml.sample
-rwxr-xr-x+ 1 root  _www    347 Feb 10 17:45 setenv.local
-rwxr-xr-x  1 _www  _www    347 Sep 19 10:09 setenv.local.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root  _www   1651 Mar  4 14:49 tomcat-users.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www   1530 Sep 19 10:09 tomcat-users.xml.sample
-rw-r--r--  1 root  _www   1654 Mar  4 14:38 tomcat-users.xml~
-rw-r--r--+ 1 root  _www  52470 Feb 10 17:43 web.xml
-rw-r--r--  1 _www  _www  52470 Sep 19 10:09 web.xml.sample

On Mar 4, 2013, at 11:31 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> I tried your solution with the correct path (which was my error in posting the query). . .
> 
>  sudo CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_BASE /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin/conf_setup.sh
> 
> and now that script seems to run.
> 
> [But I don't understand why that form is required: My understanding is that with Mountain Lion, if not before, one sets up system-wide environment variables by creating file /etc/launchd.conf and putting setenv commands there. In the case at hand:
> 
>  setenv CATALINA_BASE  /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6
> 
> But that doesn't seem to be picked up.]
> 
> Next issue, I now ran:  
> 
>  sudo CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_BASE /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin/startup.sh
> 
> And got a bunch of error messages in the output:
> 
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/catalina.policy is missing, but no corresponding conf/catalina.policy.sample file was found to repair it!
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/catalina.properties is missing, but no corresponding conf/catalina.properties.sample file was found to repair it!
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/server.xml is missing, but no corresponding conf/server.xml.sample file was found to repair it!
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/tomcat-users.xml is missing, but no corresponding conf/tomcat-users.xml.sample file was found to repair it!
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/web.xml is missing, but no corresponding conf/web.xml.sample file was found to repair it!
> conf_setup.sh: file conf/setenv.local is missing, but no corresponding conf/setenv.local.sample file was found to repair it!
> Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/webapps
> Using CATALINA_HOME:   /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6
> Using CATALINA_TMPDIR: /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/webapps/temp
> Using JRE_HOME:        /System/Library/Frameworks/JavaVM.framework/Versions/CurrentJDK/Home
> Using CLASSPATH:       /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/bin/bootstrap.jar
> 
> Evidently, startup.sh calls conf_setup.sh.
> 
> But there _are_ already files:
> 
>    /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/catalina.policy
>    /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/server.xml       (and corresponding sample file)
>    /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/web.xml          (and corresponding sample file)
>    /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/tomcat-users.xml (and corresponding sample file)
>     /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/conf/setenv.local    (and corresponding sample file)
> 
> Note, though, that the output from startup.sh says:
> 
>  Using CATALINA_BASE:   /opt/local/share/java/tomcat6/webapps
> 
> Which is _not_ what it was set to be in the commands invoking startup.sh or conf_setup.sh directly.
> 
> What's going on here? I'm now completely mystified!
> 
> 
> On Mar 4, 2013, at 9:14 PM, Lawrence Velázquez <larryv at macports.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:58 PM, Murray Eisenberg <murrayeisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In my ~/.profile, I've set:
>>> 
>>> export JAVA_HOME=$(/usr/libexec/java_home)
>>> export CATALINA_BASE=/opt/local/share/java/tomcat6
>>> 
>>> And re-loaded the profile into Terminal with: source ~/.profile
>>> 
>>> But wen I run 
>>> 
>>> sudo /opt/local/share/tomcat6/bin/conf_setup.sh
>>> 
>>> I get message:  CATALINA_BASE must be set in my environment
>>> 
>>> How do I fix that?
>> 
>> By default, sudo executes commands with a minimal environment, so CATALINA_BASE won't be passed along. The easiest thing to try is explicitly specifying the variable in the sudo invocation.
>> 
>>   sudo CATALINA_BASE=$CATALINA_BASE /opt/local/share/tomcat6/bin/conf_setup.sh

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