Changeset 4504 for branches/2.8-stable/doc/src/docbook/admindoc/extensions.xml

Timestamp:

Sep 11, 2008, 8:22:51 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Nicklas Nordborg

Message:

Fixes #1080: Extensions: Manual scan fails.

File:

• branches/2.8-stable/doc/src/docbook/admindoc/extensions.xml (modified) (1 diff)

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>