Bug 86905 – Tomcat starts web applications in current working directory of process that runs init script

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Chet McNeill 2005-03-27 16:01:52 UTC]

If the Tomcat server is started from a bash session, the server uses the user's current working directory as it's CWD. When web applications are configured to use a relative working directory, they end up quite confused and can't access their own files.

I fixed this on my system by simply adding 'cd "${CATALINA_HOME}/webapps"' in the /etc/init.d/tomcat5 file (enclosed) right after the ebegin "starting tomcat" line.

[Comment 1 Chet McNeill 2005-03-27 16:04:13 UTC]

Created attachment 54628 [details]
Init script that changes to the appropriate directory before starting tomcat

[Comment 2 Jan Brinkmann (RETIRED) 2005-03-27 19:15:38 UTC]

thanks for your report, i've added a 'cd ${CATALINA_BASE}/webapps' . fixed in cvs

[Comment 3 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) 2005-03-28 02:11:44 UTC]

Please, could you change the init script for 5.0.27-r4 as well? Tnx.