unable to deploy war file on tomcat5.5 (JVM 1.5.0)

Hi Everyone,

I've been given my own server (Debian) at work, with the condition that I will get no support... I program in Java/ Flex mostly and am green in linux so this is a poison chalice if ever there was one.

I'm trying to upload a 'hello world' style jsp onto the server. It works fine on my own computer, within a NetBeans/virtual tomcat enviroment. I can build a war then deploy the file from within the tomcat manager. This all works fine.

When I move the file to the server then try to deploy the war from the tomcat manager I get the following message:

FAIL - Deploy Upload Failed, Exception: Processing of multipart/form-data request failed. /var/cache/tomcat5.5/Catalina/localhost/manager/upload_4qzgbu_gf5g1gok.0_00000007.tmp (Permission denied)

I don't understand this and there is no information in the logs. I'm logged onto my server as an administrator so can't see how tomcat can have permission denied for a file.

Where do I go from here?

with grateful thanks,

kenneth

sorry to update:

I've manually put the war file into the webapps directory and restarted tomcat. The files unpacked okay and I can see the files in the manager. When I try to go to the address I get the error message:

The server encountered an internal error () that prevented it from fulfilling this request.

exception

org.apache.jasper.JasperException: Unable to compile class for JSP
    org.apache.jasper.JspCompilationContext.compile(JspCompilationContext.java:573)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServletWrapper.service(JspServletWrapper.java:302)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.serviceJspFile(JspServlet.java:329)
    org.apache.jasper.servlet.JspServlet.service(JspServlet.java:265)
    javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:802)
    java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(libgcj.so.90)
    org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil$1.run(SecurityUtil.java:244)
    java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(libgcj.so.90)
    javax.security.auth.Subject.doAsPrivileged(libgcj.so.90)
    org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.execute(SecurityUtil.java:276)
    org.apache.catalina.security.SecurityUtil.doAsPrivilege(SecurityUtil.java:162)

root cause

java.io.FileNotFoundException: /var/lib/tomcat5.5/work/Catalina/localhost/fsData/org/apache/jsp/index_jsp.java (No such file or directory)
../ (rest removed)

I got stuck here before. Is this something to do with the privileges that Tomcat runs under?

kenneth

Are you logged on as ether root of the tomcat5.5 user?
It is a permissions thing - my directory /var/cache/tomcat6 is owed by tomcat6 user, which will probably be the same for you.

Check that dir is owned by your relevant tomcat user (and pref sub-directories). When deploying, check that that directory is using the correct permissions.
Try to deploy using the web-manager and see if that runs ok.

Just a few ideas!

Thanks,

The 'work' folder and subfolders within the tomcat folder were owned by root. I changed them to being owned by tomcat and it worked!

Kenneth