problems with TOMCAT

[dwskp]

Have you guys run into a problem with Tomcat when trying to deploy a war that contains other jars. I can't even get the java code to connect to mysql through mysql jars installed through the war. I have also tried placing the jars into common/libs. Still, I am getting a security related problem. For some reason tomcat is not allowing java to connect to mysql through the correcponding drivers. What do I need to do to make sure that java has access to all the jars included in the war?? I need to be able to use hibernate,struts, etc.. otherwise what is the point of having tomcat in plesk??

 

[dwskp]

Never mind guys I solved it by editing the catalina.policy file, everything works fine now.

 

[ryanz]

What did you actually do/edit to get it working?
Please post it here so we can share the information.

Thanks

 

[dwskp]

Ryan,

This is what I did, I added the following to the catalina.policy file in the WEB APPLICATION PERMISSIONS section, please note this definition is on its own, it's not embedded into grant {} that is already defined in the policy file:

initially i have tried this, but it didn't work:

grant codeBase "file:/var/cache/tomcat4/work/PSA/-" {
permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:8080", "connect";
permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost:3306", "listen,connect,accept,resolve";
permission java.net.SocketPermission "localhost.localdomain:3306", "listen,connect,accept,resolve";
permission java.util.PropertyPermission "file.encoding", "read";
};

so I did this instead:

grant codeBase "file:/var/cache/tomcat4/work/PSA/-" {
permission java.security.AllPermission;
};


I know it's not the most secure way, but it works until I figure out what's wrong the the first way of doing it.

Drew.

 

[dwskp]

oh you also need to restart tomcat after the edit to have this working.

For those who don't know where catalina.policy is located, it's in /var/tomcat4/conf directory.

Drew

 

[ryanz]

Thanks for the details