Changeset 4504

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2008, 8:22:51 AM (15 years ago)

Author:

Nicklas Nordborg

Message:

Fixes #1080: Extensions: Manual scan fails.

Location:

branches/2.8-stable

Files:

• doc/src/docbook/admindoc/extensions.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• doc/src/docbook/admindoc/installation_upgrade.xml (modified) (1 diff)
• www (modified) (1 prop)
• www/extensions (added)
• www/extensions/readme.txt (added)

branches/2.8-stable/doc/src/docbook/admindoc/extensions.xml

@@ -67 +67 @@
       folder. This is the only place were extensions can be installed.
     </para>
+    
+    <note>
+      <title>Make sure the extensions folder is writable by Tomcat</title>
+      <para>
+        The extension you are installing may include resources such as HTML
+        files, JSP scripts, images, etc. that needs to be extracted to the 
+        web application path before they can be used. This extraction is
+        automatically done by the extensions system, but you have to make
+        sure that the user account Tomcat is running as has permission
+        to create (and delete) new files in the 
+        <filename class="directory">&lt;base-dir&gt;/www/extensions</filename>
+        directory.
+      </para>
+    </note>
     
     <para>

branches/2.8-stable/doc/src/docbook/admindoc/installation_upgrade.xml

@@ -1029 +1029 @@
 <programlisting>cd /path/to/tomcat/webapps
 ln -s /path_to_base/www base2</programlisting>
+          </para>
+          <para>
+            If you plan to install extensions you should make sure that
+            the <filename class="directory">&lt;base-dir&gt;/www/extensions</filename>
+            directory is writable by the user account Tomcat is running as.
+          </para>
+          <para>
             Start/restart Tomcat, and try http://hostname:8080/base2
             (change <emphasis>hostname</emphasis> to your hostname) in